Emmanuel Berl : cavalier seul : biographie / Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick Lienhardt ; préface de Jean d'Ormesson, de l'Académie française.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philipponnat, Olivier, author.

Lienhardt, Patrick, author.

Contributor:

Ormesson, Jean d', 1925-2017, writer of preface.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Berl, Emmanuel, 1892-1976.

Berl, Emmanuel.

Authors, French--20th century--Biography.

Authors, French.

Journalists--France--Biography.

Journalists.

France.

Historians--France--Biography.

Historians.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

495 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : La Librairie Vuibert, [2017]

Summary:

Cavalier alone Essayist, novelist, journalist, philosopher, historian, memorialist ... Emmanuel Berl (1892-1976) was all this at the same time. Nothing will remain foreign to this singular character, cavalier alone on the margins of the great equipped of his time. His life begins under the gaze of Bergson and Proust, his distant relatives. It ends with a close complicity with Patrick Modiano. Meanwhile, he will have run the adventure of his century alongside Aragon, Drieu, Breton, Malraux, Morand or Camus, to name but a few. His name evokes brilliant pamphlets, the weekly Marianne he directed from 1932 to 1936, his marriage, unlikely and joyful, with the singer Mireille; but also the messages of Marshal Pétain to which he lent a helping hand in June 1940: the specter of Vichy will haunt for a long time this Jew of good family, a man of left proclaimed, raised in a Dreyfusard and clemencist environment. Pacifist and patriotic, quietist and libertine, Marxist and anti-communist, Mau rrasian and Europeanist, Berl has never ceased to vary and to marry opposites. To retrace her life is to follow a broken line that goes through a whole century of ideas, books, and friendships. With the help of numerous testimonies and rare documents, this biography depicts the multifaceted portrait of a fierce and seductive writer whose life, more than any other, illustrates what it costs to think freely. has ceased to vary and to marry contraries. To retrace her life is to follow a broken line that goes through a whole century of ideas, books, and friendships. With the help of numerous testimonies and rare documents, this biography depicts the multifaceted portrait of a fierce and seductive writer whose life, more than any other, illustrates what it costs to think freely. has ceased to vary and to marry contraries. To retrace her life is to follow a broken line that goes through a whole century of ideas, books, and friendships. With the help of numerous testimonies and rare documents , this biography depicts the multifaceted portrait of a fierce and seductive writer whose life, more than any other, illustrates what it costs to think freely.--Translation of page 4 of cover by Espace culturel.

Notes:

Reproduction of the preface originally written for the book Tant que vous penserez à moi (Paris : Bernard Grasset, 1992), based upon the Interview held in May 1968 between Emmanuel Berl and Jean d'Ormesson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-495) and index.

ISBN:

9782311101003

2311101005

OCLC:

1004983578