Jean Guehenno
Marcel-Jules-Marie Guehenno, said Jean Guhenno, born 25 March 1890 in Fern - died on 22 September 1978 in Paris , is a writer and literary critic French.
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Biography
Born in Fougeres (Ille-et-Vilaine), March 25, 1890, Jean Guehenno told in Changing lives his childhood poverty. Son of a shoemaker Breton, he was forced to leave school at fourteen to engage as an employee in a factory of galoshes, which does not prevent him from continuing to study alone, after his days work. He obtained his BA and then passes the entrance examination to the Ecole Normale Superieure , and finally the aggregation , which opened the doors of secondary education.
After serving during the First World War as an infantry officer, Jean Guhenno became professor of Khgne (literature) to high schools Lakanal , Henri IV and Louis-le-Grand. He must finish his career in the National Education as Inspector General.
Jean Guehenno also devoted himself to literary criticism - particularly through a comprehensive study of the work Rousseau - and writing many books in which he proposed an original humanism. These include The Eternal Gospel (1927), Caliban speaks (1928), Jean-Jacques on the sidelines of the Confessions (1948), Jean-Jacques, romance and truth (1950), Jean-Jacques, greatness and misery of a spirit (1952), difficult Faith (1957), Jean-Jacques, history of consciousness (1962), Caliban and Prospero (1969).
It is this humanism that came out of political commitment by Jean Guhenno between the wars. In 1927, he signed with Alain , Descaves Lucien , Louis Guilloux , Poulaille Henry , Jules Romains , Sverine ... the petition against the law on the general organization of the nation in time of war, which supersedes any intellectual independence and freedom of opinion. This petition appears in the April 15 issue of the journal Europe where he became Director from 1929 to 1936. Then he founded the weekly newspaper Friday. He participated in 1930 in the third university course in Davos , with many other French and German intellectuals. His appointment would naturally lead him to join the Resistance during the Second World War. He went underground during the dark years of his writing under the pseudonym of Cevennes.
At Figaro newspaper right after 1945 he remained faithful to the moral requirement and thoroughness that marked his youth and found expressed in the autobiographical part of his work: Diary of a 40 years (1934), Journal of the dark years, 1940-1944 (1947), Notes from old writer (1971).
Jean Guehenno was elected to the French Academy January 25, 1962, by 15 votes the chair of Emile Henriot. He was received December 6, 1962 by Jacques Chastenet (the first Induction Ceremony to be held in the renovated Academy), creating this tribute to Francois Mauriac in his notepad: "However bad you think the Academy, in an exemplary life like Guhenno, she brings a dedication irreplaceable. The small Breton worker who, by the power of his spirit and perseverance, became the eminent teacher, this senior official, and especially this writer, draws our eyes an image of Epinal where the Dome should appear in the last box. "
Jean Guehenno died in Paris September 22, 1978.
Works
- 1927: The Eternal Gospel, Study Michelet ( Grasset )
- 1928: Caliban speaks (Grasset)
- 1931: Conversion to humans (Grasset)
- 1931: Simon Mondzain (French Nouvelle Revue)
- 1934: Diary of a 40 year old man (Grasset)
- 1936: Youth of France (Grasset)
- 1939: Voltaire, Bernard Palissy, Renan (in collaboration) ( Gallimard )
- 1939: Diary of a Revolution "1937-1938 (Grasset)
- 1939: Tribute to Dabit (in collaboration) (French Nouvelle Revue)
- 1944: In prison (under the pseudonym Cevennes) (Midnight)
- 1945: The University in the Resistance and in the new France (French Office Edition)
- 1946: France in the world (Freedom)
- 1947: Journal of the dark years (1940-1944) (Gallimard)
- 1948: Jean-Jacques on the sidelines of the "Confessions". IT 1712-1750 (Grasset)
- 1949: The share of France (Mont Blanc)
- 1950: Jean-Jacques on the sidelines of the "Confessions". T.II. 1750-1758 (Grasset)
- 1952: Travel: U.S. tour, Africa tour (Gallimard)
- 1952: Jean-Jacques on the sidelines of the "Confessions". T. III. 1758-1778 (Gallimard)
- 1954: Adventures of the Mind (Gallimard)
- 1954: France and blacks (Gallimard)
- 1957: Faith difficult (Grasset)
- 1959: On the way men (Grasset)
- 1961: Change of life, my childhood and youth (Grasset)
- 1964: What I think (Grasset)
- 1968: The death of others (Grasset)
- 1969: Caliban and Prospero (Gallimard)
- 1971: Notes from old writer (Grasset)
- 1977: Last lights, past pleasures (Grasset)
- 2008: The dead youth, only novel, written between December 1917 and October 1920, remained unpublished in the lifetime of the author (Claire Paulhan)
Correspondence
- 2010: Correspondence (1927-1967), Louis Guilloux - Jean Guhenno (The Communist Party)
Bibliography
- Philippe Niogret, The Journal Europe and the novels of the inter-war years, L'Harmattan, Paris 2004
Decorations
- Commander of the Legion of Honor
- Croix de guerre 1914-1918
- Resistance Medal
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| Preceded by Emile Henriot | Chair 9 of the French Academy 1962-1978 | Followed by Alain Decaux |
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