Marcel Jouhandeau

Marcel Jouhandeau (Guéret, July 26th 1888 - Rueil-Malmaison, April 7th 1979) is a writer French.

Biography

Born in a commercial family from Guéret, It grows in a world of women, in particular her grandmother. Marcel Jouhandeau turns, as of his youths - under the influence of an young woman left Carmel of Limoges - to a Catholicisme mystical and outrageux and it initially plans to enter the orders. It leaves for Paris in 1908 and studies with the Lycée Henri-Iv, then with the Faculty of Arts of the Université of Paris, where it starts to write. He becomes professor in a college of Passy starting from 1912.

He tests very young person his first homosexual agitations which are lived in an extreme culpability, in the insult of God. For as much, this feeling of shame does not prevent it from being devoted to many “passages to the act” and all its life will oscillate between the celebration of the male body and lived the mortifère of sexuality so much so that in 1914, in a mystical dash, Marcel Jouhandeau burns his manuscripts and tries to commit suicide. The crisis passed, it goes back gradually to the writing by the means of village chronicles which are the occasion of the first successes.

During the First World War, it, initially, is reformed, before being affected with the back as secretary with Guéret. It publishes in 1924 Pincegrain , a hardly disguised chronicle of the inhabitants of Guéret, which shocked the natives of the city. The voyages are for him the occasion to deliver to the male loves told in the Amateur of imprudences . It Marie, at forty years, in 1929, with a dancer, Elisabeth Toulemont, known as Caryathis “Elyse”, ex-mistress of Charles Dullin and familiar of Jean Cocteau and max Jacob. She hopes for the débarasser her inclinations. During this period, it starts a work of Christian moralist ( Of the abjection ) before falling down in the arms of men - to the great displeasure of his wife - episodes told in Chronique of a passion and Eloge of pleasure . They adopt néammoins an young girl, Céline, who is confined of a small Marc. In 1971, with died of Elects, Marcel Jouhandeau finishes his days near this last.

One also reproached him his lampoon anti-semite the Jewish Danger and his voyage to Weimar, in 1941, on the invitation of Goebbels.

Work

the youth of Theophilus (1921)
Pincengrain (1924)
Prudence Hautechaume (1927)
Mr Godeau intimates (1926)
the amateur of imprudences (1932)
Mr married Godeau (1933)
Chaminadour (1934 - 1941)
Algèbre of the values morals (1935)
the Jewish Danger , Editions Sorlot, 1938.
marital Chroniques (1938)
Of the abjection (1939)
Test on myself (1947)
Scenes of the married life (1948)
Memorial (1948)
the fault rather than the scandal (1949)
Chronic of a passion (1949)
Praise of pleasure (1951)
Last years and died of Veronique (1953)
Tales of hell (1955)
Léonora or dangers of the virtue (1955)
Notebooks of the writer (1957)
the school of the girls (1960)
Daily (1961 - 1978)
the instantaneous ones of the memory (1962)
Three ritual crimes (1962)
Of the Pure Love (1970)
Written secret: Tirésias , Notebooks of Don Juan , the secret voyage (1988)

Two books of Marcel Jouhandeau, Elements for an ethics and Praise of imprudence , French news, were published by the Noah editions in 2006.

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