Edmond Glesener

Edmond Glesener (Liege, on August 26th, 1874 - Ixelles, on April 25th, 1951) is an academician and a Belgian writer of French expression .

Initially medical student, it charms and chooses the right, becomes clerk of notary then, in 1899 enters to the Ministry for sciences and arts. It publishes in its expenses a first novel with the Mercure de France , Histoire of Mr. Aristide Truffaut, artist-carver , which it dedicates to Camille Lemonnier. He collaborates in 1892 in the Walloon Review and the Peuple .

In 1904 appears the novel which makes it famous, the Heart of François Remy , who is actually an anthem with the Wallonia, with his manner of feeling the things, with its identity. It is a novel of 400 pages which tells the history of a man who joined the woman that he likes in a convoy of open: the wandering, the adventure, the Bohemian one… Marcel Thiry speaks about it about this way: Many novels are written too much; this one, is too little encumbered banal sentences and sinistralities. And it still is too it. But we are taken by the powerful poetry of the facts. It is the girl of the basket maker who comes to water to fill his jug by supporting it on the reverse of the ditch under two stones punts as regards drain : it is the young man who turns over the evening, in the shade, to contemplate the young girl under the quinquet of the travelling house. This maringote, it is the true reigning character, the fatal image for which François Rémy very left much more than for Louise, since after the death of this one it will not be able déprendre of an increasingly miserable serfdom; in the last pages of the book, which are of a true size, after having tried to flee in the night by tightening cpontre him in a shawl the little girl that Louise left him, it will return to slip with the child into his species of niche of servant at the bottom of roulotte with two roues.

It is keep silent then during nine years while collaborating in Wallonia , one of the reviews which at the beginning of the 20th century marks the awakening of the Walloon conscience. In 1913, it leaves this long silence and publishes a unit entitled Chronique of a small country whose two volumes are Mr Honore and the citizen Colette . This time, it is an epopee of 800 pages which tells the rise of cynical which, arrived to its ends, knows a reversal of situation immediately and loses all at the same time its fortune and its position.

From 1921 to 1926 it publishes the Song of the widows , the Ride of the Valkyrie (1921) then Dytiques (1923) and With the Beautiful Ceiling (1926) who trace in a very painful way in which it lived the occupation and the First World War.

In 1922 it enters to the royal Académie of language and literature Frenchwomen.

In 1927, a new novel in two volumes leaves: the Rose crimson , the Flame of the cypress which is located this time in the upper middle class. Marguerite is located on the contrary in 1931, in the medium of the prostitution.

the Yoke of fire published in 1940, highlights the Walloon decoration of Liege.

Finally a posthumous account appears the Star of Bethlehem left a spirit and a heart meurtis by the war and which turns - whereas all its life the author is érait declared atheistic or agnostic - to a primitive Christianity reconciler of the human beings.

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