Édouard Estaunié
Édouard Estaunié (4 February 1862 in Dijon – 2 April 1942 in Paris) was a French novelist.[1][2] Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer, working at the Post and Telegraph service and training further in Holland, before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication". He was elected to the Académie française in 1923. He was also a reviewer, critic, and homme de lettres as well as a novelist.
Biography
Estaunié was born February 4, 1862 in Dijon[3]. His first novels, Un simple and Bonne Dame, published in 1891,[4] were naturalistic works about provincial mores[4]. Many of his works were set in the provinces, especially in Burgundy[5].
After his first three works, Estaunié's novels began to focus on everything that is silenced and unspoken in his characters' lives[5]. In this period, spiritual phenomena, such as "the soul, the 'secret life', and solitude", were "the dominating realities in Estaunié's universe"[6]
He was elected to the Académie française on November 15, 1923, taking the chair formerly occupied by Alfred Capus[4].
Estaunié died on April 1, 1942[4], in Paris[3].
Works
- Un simple (1891)
- Bonne Dame (1891)
- L'Empreinte (1896)
- Le Ferment (1899)
- L'Épave (1891)
- La Vie secrète (prix Femina, 1908)
- Les choses voient (1913)
- Solitudes (stories, 1917)
- L'ascension de M. Baslèvre (1920)
- L'appel de la route (1921). Translated by Ezra Pound in 1923 as The Call of the Road
- L'infirme aux mains de lumière (1923)
- Tels qu'ils furent (1927)
- Madame Clapain (1932)
References
- ^ Scheifley, William H. (1926). The Modern Language Journal. National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations. pp. 357–364.
- ^ Crane, Christina (1954). "A Study of the Priest Type in the Novels of Édouard Estaunié". The French Review. 27 (4): 259–268. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 382915.
- ^ a b François, Martine. "Estaunié, Louis Marie Édouard". cths.fr. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ a b c d "Édouard ESTAUNIÉ | Académie française". www.academie-francaise.fr. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ a b "ÉDOUARD ESTAUNIÉ (1862-1942) - Encyclopædia Universalis". www.universalis.fr. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ Ball, Bertrand Logan (1966). "Estaunié's Naturalistic Period and Spiritual Period". BYU Studies Quarterly: 72.
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