Paul Gadenne

Paul Gadenne , born with Armentières (Northern) the April 4th 1907 and died in Cambo-the-Baths (Yrénées-Atlantiques) on May 1st 1956, is a writer French.

Driven out of Armentières by the war, the Gadenne family spends a time to Boulogne-sur-Mer before settling with Paris, where Paul makes his studies starting from 1918. After having followed the classes of hypokhâgne and khâgne to the Louis-the-Large College, where he is in particular school-fellow of Thierry Maulnier, Robert Brasillach and of Maurice Bardèche, Paul Gadenne obtains with the Faculty of Arts of the Université of Paris the arts degree and the diploma of higher learning, devoted to Proust, and occupies a first post of professor in 1932 with Elbeuf in Normandy.

Tuberculosis the constrained one in 1933 to stop its career of teacher. He spends long months then to the sanatorium of Praz-Costing located close to Sallanches in Haute-Savoie.

Its first novel, SILOE (1941), is partly autobiographical and draft of its stays in sanatorium and the reflection that they inspire to him. Then it tries to seize, in the deep Street (1948) and the Avenue (1949), the mystery of artistic creation through a character of poet. The meeting, separation and the culpability, in the context of the war and collaboration, are topics also very important and recurring in its work; the Beach of Scheveningen (1952) provides a perfect illustration of it. This book one of is made a success of of Gadenne, with the High Districts , work published in a posthumous way, in 1973, and which largely contributed to its recognition. This last account is written in a style close to SILOE , even if it constitutes a perfect antithesis of it. Indeed, if SILOE reports the awakening of one conscience to the life, in the High Districts is described this time a slow routing, in the hell of the city, towards darkness, and a loss of oneself from which one can escape only by the mediation from the writing, which makes it possible to reach one beyond the literature which is the life even. Gadenne wrote news, from now on gathered under the title of Scènes in the castle (posthumous, 1986), a collection of posthumous Poèmes , and reflections on art to write and the trade of novelist: Concerning the novel .

The disease carries it after a long anguish at the 49 years age.

Its reclusion pushes it with the reflection then with the writing. Its work has a remarkable capacity of suggestion. Gadenne indeed manages to create a heavy atmosphere, while using very simple narrative means, where the loneliness of the Man and the difficulty even of its existence are expressed.

Works

SILOE (1941)
black Wind (1947)
the deep Street (1948)
the Avenue (1949)
the Beach of Scheveningen (1952)
the Invitation at Stirl (1955)
the Top-Districts (1956)

External bonds

http://www.gadenne.org/
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