Etienne Green woodpecker of Senancour

Etienne Pivert of Senancour (November 16th 1770 - January 10th 1846) is a French writer preromantic.

Born with Paris, it was raised by his mother, then in a country priest close to Ermenonville, where it was caught passion for Rousseau. Melancholic person and recluse, he suffered then with the college from the sarcastic remarks from his comrades. He flees on August 14th, 1789, to avoid the seminar for which his/her father intended it, which was worth to him to be reproduced on the list of the emigrants.

He settled in Switzerland, made an unhappy marriage, saw his health declining. He returned to Paris in 1795, where he had just published an account ( Aldomen or Happiness in the darkness). In 1799, it published its Daydreams on the primitive nature of the man, where alternate contemplation of the landscapes of mountain, expression of the melancholy, desire to change the company. Oberman (1804) is the novel which will be worth glory near the romantic ones to him. Its bitterness is expressed through the diary of an unhappy hero, devoured trouble, doubts and concerns. Daydreams and descriptions of nature hold a great place to with it. Holy-Beuve then George Sand rented this novel, past almost unperceived of living of its author, in spite of the attention which Nodier paid to him.

Living small work of bookstore and journalism, Senancour also collaborated in the universal Bibliography of the contemporaries. It left a play, meditations, tests, of which one was worth to him to be marked of impiété in 1825, and a small treaty where it pleads for the divorce ( Of the love ). The name of Senancour remained associated with its Oberman novel, but remains unknown as for its other works: daydreams of 1833 were curiously never republished. However some knew to find in him a Master: Nerval, Balzac and Proust was not wearied to read it.

Isidore Ducasse protests against the aspect bucolic and natural (within the meaning of Rousseau) of Sénancour, which seemed to him stripped of interest. He insists thus on the female sides of Sénancour, as for example his complaints (as the biography evokes it above). The " t" who finishes his name at Ducasse can express the lack of interest of which it makes proof towards Senancour, but also the brevity of the success of this last (" court"), by popularizing its name as an adjective.

Works

Aldomen (1795)
Daydreams on the primitive nature of the man, his feelings, the means of happiness that they indicate to him, on the social mode which would preserve the most its paramount forces (1798)
Oberman (1804)
Of the Love (1806)

External bonds

Literary Data bank of History

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