Andre Maurois

Andre Maurois , of his name of origin Emile Solomon Wilhelm Herzog , born the July 26th 1885 with Tweed and dead the October 9th 1967 with Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a novelist, storyteller and essay writer French.

Resulting from a rich person family of Alsatian industrialists, Maurois has as a professor with the college of Rouen the philosopher Alain, with whom it will be indebted of his esthetic orientation. He indeed prefers the career of writer to the direction of the family factory and illustrates himself initially by novels which gain a women to him: Climates , Pinks of September.

Interpret and liaison officer during the First World War, it writes in 1918 silences of the colonel Bramble , which will be a sharp success, both in France and in the Anglo-Saxon countries, and which will be followed Discours of Doctor O' Grady . The events of this War provide him its pseudonym " Maurois" , name of a village of the North of France.

After the war, it belonged to the drafting of the newspaper of the Cross-of-fire, the Torch .

But it is in its biographies that the writer excels: it devotes them, with a fraternity inspired, with Shelley, Victor Hugo, George Sand and Balzac.

He is elected with the French Academy on June 23rd 1938, with the armchair 26 which Rene Doumic occupied.

Exiled with the the United States during the Second world war, it will take the party of Pétain, in spite of its Jewish origins. According to Pierre Assouline, in his work Gaston Gallimard , Maurois would be remained during the war shareholder of the editions Bernard Grasset.

Works

silences of the colonel Bramble . Contains the translation by André Maurois of the famous poem of Rudyard Kipling If (translation sometimes allotted wrongly to Paul Éluard)
the speeches of Doctor O' Grady . Takes again the characters of Bramble .
New speeches of Doctor O' Grady (1947). Forty years before Bernard Werber, this work already evokes, inter alia subjects, the world war that between them two species of ants are delivered, the Pheidoles and the Iridomyrmex . This book, which makes following the second world war, marks which intellectual way was traversed since the first. The ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre like the news gives brought by the atomic bomb are evoked there.
the machine with reading the thoughts
Climates (adapted to the cinema by Stellio Lorenzi)
Pinks of September
the Weighing one of hearts
Voyage to the country of Articoles
Magicians and Logiciens
Ariel, or life of Shelley
Prométhée, or life of Balzac
Olympio, or life of Victor Hugo
life of Disraeli
Letter with an young man
Lélia or life of George Sand
Don Juan or life of Byron
American Building sites
Edouard VII and his time
imaginary Worlds
English Studies
Dialogs on the command
Rouen
Aspects of the biography
Newspaper, the United States 1946

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André Maurois is also the author of books for children, such as Patapoufs and Filifers , prophetic fable evoking the nonsense of the constitution of the human groups around simple physical criteria (here, the thinness and obesity). The young illustrator of this album, Jean To burn, will become later the writer Vercors.
André Maurois represented the dialogs of the film Noblesse obliges .
It moreover published in 1939 a biography of the general Lyautey, and writes a French history extremely complete, but not deprived of standpoint, and by which it seeks to sensitize its reader with the single destiny of France.
In 1950 it took part in the number of the Nave of Lucie Faure, entitled “the Love is to be reinvented”, with Marcelle Auclair, Jacques Audiberti, Emile Danoën, Maurice Druon, Roger Vailland, etc

André Maurois gave his name to a college with Neuilly-sur-Seine.

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

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