Sully Prudhomme
Sully Prudhomme [ Syli pʀydɔm ] (actually René François Armand Prudhomme, born March 16, 1839 in Paris, † September 7, 1907 in Chatenay -Malabry ) was a French writer. He was the first Nobel Prize for Literature. His most famous poem is Le Vase brisé (1865 ).
Life
Prudhomme grew up in Paris in a bourgeois Catholic family and made at the Lycée Bonaparte leaving examination first in the scientific branch ( baccalauréat scientifique ) and then in altsprachlich - literary branch ( baccalauréat de lettres ). After a short period in the distinguished company Schneider ( the " French Krupp " ) in Le Creusot it announced its intention to become an engineer and studied law. After that he worked, again only briefly, as a lawyer in Paris.
As he wrote poems for many years, he changed his mind mid-20s on his inherited wealth and devoted himself to literature and philosophy, trying to connect with the spirit and the beauty of the world of technology and science.
First Sully Prudhomme wrote, as he now called himself as an author, artfully chiseled poems in the rather cool manner of the Parnassian, which he published as usual in magazines and collected from time to time in book form published (title see below).
His participation in the Franco-German War of 1870 /71, which he finished with severe health problems, he worked in Impressions de la guerre (1872 ) and La France (1874 ).
Thereafter, he waved to a " poésie personelle " that is poetry, the formal elegance with beautiful pictures, beautiful thoughts and beautiful feelings complacent united and have been savored by readers of the time as well as the pleasing philosophical essays on various subjects, which he to write understood and produced in large numbers.
In 1881 he found his recognition as a writer by the inclusion in the Académie française. Recognition as a moral authority he found in 1895 by the appointment as Chevalier de la Légion d' honneur ( Knight of the Legion of Honor ). Was awarded as 1901, the first Nobel Prize for Literature, received him Sully Prudhomme.
Today he is virtually unknown in France.
Sully Prudhomme found his final resting place in the Cimetière du Père - Lachaise in Paris.
Works
- Stances et poèmes ( poems, 1865)
- Les épreuves ( poems, 1866)
- Les solitudes (1869 )
- Les destins ( poems, 1872)
- La justice ( poems, 1878)
- Croquis italy
- Les vaines tendresses (1875 )
- Le prisme ( poems, 1886)
- Le bonheur ( poems, 1888)
- Testament poétique
- Journal intime
- Réflexions sur l'art of verse (Article, 1892)
- Épaves ( poems, posthumously 1908)