Nicolas Bouvier

Nicolas Bouvier ( born March 6, 1929 in Lancy, Switzerland, † 17 February 1998 in Geneva ) was a Swiss writer, travel writer, photographer and journalist. With his travelogue, he became a cult author in this genre.

Life

Nicolas Bouvier grew up in Geneva, where he studied humanities and law. In 1953 he abandoned his studies and started together with his friend, the painter Thierry Vernet, a trip to a Fiat Topolino from Geneva via Yugoslavia, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan to Kabul. He traveled to Sri Lanka in 1955 alone and had to continue because of its malaria spend nine months in the port city of Galle. Thus he went to Japan in 1956 and returned back to Switzerland. After his return, he wrote L' usage du monde. More extended stays abroad, inter alia, in Japan, China and Korea followed in the sixties.

Not until 1981 that he published his experiences and hallucinations on Sri Lanka in a book entitled Le poisson - scorpion ( Scorpio fish). The notice published in the 2005 documentary Nicolas Bouvier, 22 Hospital Street by Christoph Kühn describes in a collage these records and merges it with interviews of witnesses and old film documents.

Writings

  • L' usage du monde, 1963 ( The experience of the world, translation by Trude Fein, 1980, new edition Lenos Verlag, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-85787-324-8 )
  • Chronique japonaise, 1975 ( Japanese Chronicle, translated by Giò Waeckerlin Induni, Lenos Verlag, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-85787-334-5 )
  • Le poisson - scorpion, 1981 (. Scorpio fish, translation by Barbara Erni, 1989, new edition 2005, ISBN 3-250-30011- X); Translation by Stefan Zweifel, Lenos Verlag, Basel 2012, ISBN 978 3 85787 418 5
  • Le dehors et le dedans, 1982 ( exterior and interior. Poems, translated by Markus Hediger, Lenos Verlag, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-85787-366-3 )
  • Journal d' autres lieux et d'Aran, 1990 ( leaves of the road: Aran, Tschedschu, Sian, translation of Regula Renschler, Lenos Verlag, Basel 2003, ISBN 3-85787-346-9 )
  • L' échappée belle: éloge de quelques Peregrins, 1996 ( praise the desire to travel, translation by Giò Waeckerlin Induni, Basel, Lenos Verlag 2007, ISBN 3-85787-382-5 )
  • Immortal Blue: Travel to Afghanistan, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Ella Maillart, Nicolas Bouvier; ed. and with an afterword by Roger Perret, Lenos Verlag Basel 2003, ISBN 3-85881-148-3.
  • Le Vide et le Plein: carnets du Japon 1964-1970, ed. Grégory Leroy, 2004 ( The Empty and Full, translation by Giò Waeckerlin Induni, Lenos Verlag, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-85787-364-7 )
  • Nicolas Bouvier; Thierry Vernet: Correspondance of routes croisées, 1945-1964. Texts établi, annote et présenté par Daniel Maggetti et Stéphane Pétermann, Editions Zoé, Geneva / Carouge 2010 ISBN 978-2-88182-675-7

Filmography

  • Le hibou et la baleine ( The Owl and the Whale ), by Patricia Plattner, 1993 ( documentary about Nicolas Bouvier )
  • Nicolas Bouvier, 22 hospital street, by Christoph Kühn, 2006 ( documentary about Nicolas Bouvier )
  • Nomad's Land. Sur les traces de Nicolas Bouvier, Gaël Métroz, 2008 ( Documentary )
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