Emmanuel Berl

Emmanuel Berl , born the August 2nd 1892 with the Vésinet in the Yvelines and deceased the September 21st 1976 with Paris and buried with the Cemetery of Montparnasse, is a journalist, historian and essay writer French. He was married with the Chanteuse and Compositrice Mireille (she had called it “Theodore”). He was also the cousin of Lisette of Brinon.

Biography

Resulting from a family of the related Jewish upper middle classes to the Bergson and the Proust like with the writer Monique Lange, it follows studies of Philosophie before engaging like volunteer in 1914. Reformed in 1917 for respiratory disease after having received the Military Cross, it attends the surrealist , binds with Louis Aragon, Gaston Bergery and its former school-fellow of the Lycée Carnot (Paris), Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, with which, in 1927, it publishes a transitory periodical: the Last Days. In 1928, it takes part, with Edouard Berth, Marcel Déat, Bertrand de Jouvenel and Pierre Mendès France, with the drafting of the blue Cahiers which has just launched Georges Valois. The same year, it meets André Malraux and dedicates to him its work Mort of the middle-class thought , lampoon in which Emmanuel Berl calls with a more committed culture and a literature.

During the Years 1930, it enters in policy, at the sides of the radicals. After having worked with the weekly magazine World , it launches, in 1932, the weekly magazine Marianne , which is, until the appearance of Friday in 1935, the principal weekly magazine of left. It defends there a line favorable to the Popular front but its intransigent Pacifisme and its equal refusal of the Totalitarisme S fascistic and communist encourage it to adopt positions hétérodoxes and to mark its curiosity, if not always its sympathy, to the Néo-socialism. It runs up against the left because it is to equip France with large and strong army. I am for the force and against violence he said.

In 1937, the Éditions Gallimard sell Marianne . Emmanuel Berl leaves the newspaper and founds a new weekly magazine: Paving stone of Paris , which it directs until the exodus of 1940. When this one arrives, it leaves in South-west before being called, the June 17th, with Bordeaux, where Yves Bouthillier requires of him to work with the speeches of Philippe Pétain, then President of the Council. It thus writes the two speeches of the 23 and June 25th where appear, inter alia formulas: “I hate the lies which did so much difficulty to you” and “the ground, she, does not lie”. After this short passage to Vichy, it is diverted new mode, joined with Cannes his wife Mireille, then settles, in July 1941, with Argentat, where it writes a Histoire of Europe and where join it Bertrand de Jouvenel, Jean Effel and André Malraux.

The shortly after the Second world war, it leaves the policy to be devoted to the literature and the drafting of autobiographical works, among which, in particular, Sylvia . In 1967, the French Academy decrees the to him Grand Prix of literature.

It is buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse, at the side of his wife Mireille (25e division). After its death, Patrick Modiano and Bernard Morlino made much so that one does not forget Berl. First Interrogatoire published, and the second two books posthumous of their friend: Tests and a committed spectator . And it also published on its side: tribulations of pacifist a and Berl, Morand and me .

Works

Meditation on a late love (1925),
Died of the middle-class thought (1929)
the Middle-class man and the Love (1931)
Sylvia (1952)
Presence of dead the (Gallimard, 1956)
Rachel and other graces (1965)
Three Faces of crowned (1971)
the Turn (1972)
Tests]] , texts collected, chosen and presented by Bernard Morlino; preface Bernard de Fallois (1985), republication in 2007, at ED. Bernard de Fallois.
Interrogatoire by Patrick Modiano followed It makes beautiful, go to the cemetery (1976)
As long as you will think of me (in collaboration with Jean d' Ormesson), (1992)

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