Maxence Van der Meersch

Maxence Van der Meersch , of its true Vandermeersch patronym, is a writer French born with Roubaix on May 4th, 1907, deceased on January 14th, 1951 with the Touquet where it had been established to look after his Tuberculose.

Biography

Maxence, of very fragile health, belongs to the relatively easy medium of the lower middle class, his/her father being accountant. October 27th, 1918 it loses his sister, Sarah, old only 18 years; the household of its parents will not resist it. His/her Marguerite mother will sink in alcoholism and his/her Benjamin father will carry out a judged life dissolue for the time. In 1927, it falls in love with Thérèze Denis, a young poor worker, with whom it settles in cohabitation with Wasquehal against the opinion of his father who dreamed of a differently prestigious union. In 1929, from this nonofficial union that it will regularize only in 1934, will be born his/her Sarah daughter thus, fore-mentioned in remembering his/her sister too early missing. Thérèze will be the single love of its life and is the key essential with the comprehension of the work of Van der Meersch. Lawyer of formation, it will exert very little, preferring the pen with the dress and will devote himself quickly exclusively to the writing. Its work impressed of lived humanism and its characteristic is devoted primarily to the life of modest people of the Northern , its native area. In 1936 it obtained the Prix Goncourt for the print of the god and the Grand Prix of the French Academy was decreed to him in 1943 for Corps and hearts , international success translated into thirteen languages. This novel is based on a large character of natural medicine, Dr. Paul Carton, for which it tested a major admiration, and extraordinary medicine that this one developed. He explained the choice of the subject of this novel in a quasi untraceable work: Why I wrote body and heart . Catholic, contrary to his/her Benjamin father who was a convinced atheist, it also wrote works in religious matter, in particular a life of the Curé of Ars and a biography of Sainte Therese de Lisieux. Author who was a great success of alive sound, it is almost forgotten today, however its first novel the House in the dune was adapted to the cinema in 1988 per Michel Mees, with Tchéky Karyo in the main role.

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