Paul-Louis Couchoud

Paul-Louis Couchoud , (Vienna (Isere), 1879 - 1959), was a philosopher, a scholar (japanisant and hellenist) and a poet French.

It was normalien, and was doctor (it directed a private clinic to Saint-Cloud, where it looked after in particular Anatole France).

It had been impassioned for the Japan, where it had travelled and remained. It was the introducer of the Haïku in the French language with the book With the current , written in collaboration with two friends: the sculptor Albert Poncin and the painter Andre Faure. The book was composed in 1903 during a voyage by barge on the French channels (from where the general set of themes of the collection and its title). This collection of 72 tercets in free verse was drawn with 30 specimens, but had a certain repercussion; he is regarded as one of largest the success of French haïku.

Couchoud studied and translated also Japanese haijin (Yosa Buson in particular) in the lyric Epigrams of Japan (1906), included in Sages and poets of Asia (1916) which will be translated into English Japanese Impressions (1920).

It took part in the file “Haï-Kaï” of NRF in 1920.

It was however more known for its works on Pascal, Spinoza and on the Christianisme: it defended, following J. Mr. Robertson, the thesis according to which Jesus had not existed (see the article: Thesis mythist).

Works (to be supplemented)

Paul-Louis Couchoud, Andre Faure, Albert Poncin: With the current (1903), réédit. Thousand and One Nights, (2004) ISBN 2-84205-799-6
the haïkaï - lyric Epigrams of Japan (1906), réédit. The Roundtable, Paris (2003) ISBN 2-7103-2597-7
the Mystery of Jesus , 1924
the Apocalypse (translation), Bossard, Paris, 1922
Jesus the god makes man , 1937
Histoire of Jesus , PUF (1944)
the god Jesus , Gallimard (1951)

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