Paul Adam (French novelist)

Paul Adam (December 6, 1862 in Paris, † January 2, 1920 ) was a French writer.

Life and work

Paul Adam came from an industrialist families from the Artois. He began his literary career in 1884 as an employee of the Revue indépandante before moving to Belgium its first naturalistic Roman Chair molle published in 1885. The novel provoked a moral scandal and led to a conviction to two weeks in jail.

Towards the end of the 1880s, Adam began in Symbolist magazines such as Le symboliste and La Vogue to publish. Together with Paul Ajalbert he founded Le Carcan. In 1886 he published together with Jean Moréas Le thé chez Miranda and Les Demoiselles Goubert. Paul Adam eventually became famous in 1888 with the novel être.

With his future novels Lettres de Malaisie (1897 ) (later published under the title Cité prochaine ) he became the forerunner of modern science fiction novel. In addition, Adam also wrote historical novels, including the Napoleonic times playing ( unfinished ) novel cycle about the hericourt family with the volumes La Force (1899 ) L' enfant d' Austerlitz (1901 ), La Ruse (1903) and Au soleil de juillet (1903 ).

As a follower of General Georges Ernest Boulanger Paul Adam belonged to the political right. During the First World War, he went to the moral support of the French troops to the front and founded the Ligue de fraternité Intellectual latine.

Works

• Chair molle. 1885
• Soi. 1886
• Les Demoiselles Goubert, Moeurs de Paris. ( with Jean Moréas ), 1886
• Le Thé chez Miranda. ( with Jean Moréas ), 1886
• La Glèbe. 1887
• Les volontes merveilleuses. Être. 1888
• Les volontes merveilleuses. L'essence de soleil. 1890
• Les volontes merveilleuses. En décor. 1890
• L' Époque: Le vice -store. 1891
• L' Époque: Robes rouges. 1891
• L' Époque: Les Cœurs utiles. 1892
• L' Automne: drame en trois actes. 1893
• Le Conte futur. 1893
• Critique of mœurs. 1893
• Les Images sentimental. 1893
• Princesses byzantines. 1893
• La Parade amoureuse. 1894
• Le Mystère des foules. 1895
• Les nouveaux Cœurs. 1896
• La Force du mal. 1896
• L' année de clarisse. Pointes sèches de Gaston Darbour. Ollendorff, Paris 1897.
• Le Temps et la Vie. ( Tetralogy ) La Force. 1899
• L' enfant d' Austerlitz. 1901
• La Ruse, 1827-1828. 1903
• Au soleil de juillet, 1829-1830. 1903