Showing posts with label French working-class literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French working-class literature. Show all posts
13 August 2020

Antoinette Quarré in Dijon, (Côte-d'Or (21))

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Antoinette Suzanne Quarré (1813-47) was a working-class poet who was born in Recey-sur-Ource (Côte-d'Or) and died in Dijon. She was ...
29 November 2018

Charles-Louis Philippe: La Mère et l'enfant (1900; repr. in full 1911) | Le Pére Perdrix (1902)

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This is a collection of two books in one, the first –  La Mère et l'enfant  – being a partly autobiographical account of a working-cl...
23 August 2018

Albertine Sarrazin: L'Astragale | Astragal (1965)

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As I wrote in an earlier post, Albertine Sarrazin (1937–67) was essentially rejected by her (semi- adopted) family and escaped from her s...
15 August 2018

Charles-Louis Philippe: Contes du matin (1916; rev. and repr. with Preface by David Roe (2009))

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In an earlier post I commented on Charles-Louis Philippe's collection of short stories   Dans la petite ville  (1910). The later Cont...
4 August 2018

Charles-Louis Philippe: Dans la petite ville (1910); repr. 1997 with Introduction by Francine Masson

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This is a collection of Charles-Louis Philippe's short stories which he had intended to publish in one volume, and although his unti...
26 July 2018

Marguerite Audoux, Sainte-Montaine, Cher (18)

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Marguerite Audoux (née Donquichote) was a working-class novelist who was born in 1863 in Sancoins (Cher) and died in Saint-Raphaël (Var) i...
23 July 2018

Émile Guillaumin in Ygrande, Allier (03)

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–  In this house just a few hundred metres from Ygrande, the 'peasant writer'  (yes, I know: a terrible expression) Émil...
22 July 2018

Charles-Louis Philippe in Cérilly, Allier (03)

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So, this is the birthplace of the novelist Charles-Louis Philippe (1874–1909), who lived here for twenty-two years and came back ev...
15 April 2018

Marguerite Audoux: Marie-Claire | Marie Claire (1910)

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This edition of Marguerite Audoux's Marie-Claire  (translation title Anglicised to Marie Claire ) contains a five-page Preface by Oct...
8 April 2018

Bernard Clavel: Les Fruits de l'hiver [Vol. IV, La Grande Patience] (1968)

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Set in the closing stages of World War II,  Les Fruits de l'hiver  is the final part of Bernard Clavel's tetralogy La Grande Pati...
9 November 2017

Charles-Louis Philippe: Bubu de Montparnasse (1901)

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Charles-Louis Philippe was born on 4 August 1874 in Cérilly (Allier) and died in Paris in 1909 at the age of thirty-five. He was born i...
21 May 2017

Louis Guilloux: Angélina (1934)

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Working-class Breton writer Louis Guilloux (1899–1980), born in Saint-Brieuc the son of a shoemaker, used his native Brittany as a framew...
24 November 2016

Cimetière du Montparnasse (continued) #12: Alphonse Boudard

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Three novels by Alphonse Boudard (1925–2000) – La Cerise (1963), Les Matadors (1966) and L'Hôpital (1972) – are mentioned in pa...
13 November 2016

Claire Etcherelli: Élise ou la vie vie | Elise; or, The real life (1967)

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Simone de Beauvoir was very impressed with Claire Etcherelli's Élise ou la vie vie (her first novel, which scooped the Prix Femina i...
18 July 2015

Eugène Dabit: L'Hôtel du Nord (1929)

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Marcel Carné's film Hôtel du Nord (1938) is a story of a bungled suicide pact by two lovers in financial difficulty set against the...
10 February 2014

Édouard Louis: En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule | The End of Eddy (2014)

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En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (translated as 'The End of Eddy') is Édouard Louis's first novel, published when he was tw...
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