André Suarès
André Suarès, born Isaac Félix Suarès (12 June 1868, Marseille – 7 September 1948, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés) was a French poet and critic. From 1912 onwards, he was one of the four "pillars" of the Nouvelle Revue Française, along with André Gide, Paul Claudel and Paul Valéry. In 1931, he contributed to a book entitled Marsiho.
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André Suarès

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- Name
- André Suarès
- Birth Name
- Isaac Félix Suarès
- Born
- 12 June 1868
- Birthplace
- Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
- Died
- 7 September 1948 12 June 1868
- Place of death
- Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France
- Occupation
- Poet, critic
- Nationality
- France
- Education
- Lycée Thiers · École Normale Supérieure
- Honours
- Concours général · Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française · Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris · Montyon Prize
- Languages
- French
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André Suarès appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names as a writer, author and artist (12 June 1868 – 7 September 1948).
Life
André Suarès was born on 12 June 1868 in Marseille. André Suarès died on 7 September 1948; the place of death is recorded as Val d'Oriol by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and as Paris by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Biography
Biography
In this work, written in Paris, he revealed his true feelings about his hometown (Marseille). Suarès died in 1948, aged 80.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — André Suarès • Birth Name — Isaac Félix Suarès • Born — 12 June 1868 • Birthplace — Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France • Died — 7 September 1948 12 June 1868 • Place of death — Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France • Occupation — Poet, critic
Poetry
Poetry
• Éloge d'Homère par Ronsard (1886) • Airs (1900) • Bouclier du zodiaque (1907) • Lais et sônes (1909) • Amour (1917) • Sous le pont de la Lune (1925) • Haïkaï de l'occident (1926) • Soleil de Jade (1928) • Poèmes du temps qui meurt (1929) • Rêves de l'ombre (1937) • Antiennes du Paraclet (1976), posthume • Caprices (1977), posthume • Poétique (1980), posthume
Theater
Theater
• Les Pèlerins d'Emmaüs (1893) • La Tragédie d'Élektre et Oreste (1905) • Cressida (1913) • Les bourdons sont en fleur (1917) • Polyxène (1925) • Hélène chez Archimède (1949), posthume • Minos et Parsiphaé (1950), posthume • Ellys et Thanatos (1978), posthume • Vues critiques • Tolstoï (1899) • Wagner (1899) • Le portrait d'Ibsen (1908) • Visite à Pascal (1909) • Tolstoï vivant (1911) - réédition enrichie de l'édition de 1899 • Dostoïevski (1911) • Trois Hommes: Pascal, Ibsen, Dostoïevski (1913) • François Villon (1914) • Chroniques de Caërdal: Portraits (1914) • Péguy (1915) • Cervantès (1916) • Poète tragique: portrait de Prospero - sur Shakespeare (1921) • La Bièvre, Delvau, Huysmans, Mithouard (1922) • Puissance de Pascal (1923) • Stendhal, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Gérard de Nerval et autres gueux (1923) • Goethe le grand Européen (1932) • Portraits sans modèle (1935) • Trois Grands Vivants, Cervantès, Tolstoï, Baudelaire (1937)
Essais et pamphlets
Essais et pamphlets
• Chroniques du Lieutenant X (1900) • Voici l'homme, (1906) • Sur la vie Tome I (1909), Tome II (1910), Tome III (1912) • De Napoléon (1912) • Idées et Visions (1913) • Chroniques de Caërdal: Essais (1913) • Commentaires sur la guerre des boches: Tome I, Nous et eux (1915), Tome II, C'est la guerre (1915), Tome III Occident (1915), Tome IV, La nation contre la race, la fourmilière (1916), Tome V La nation contre la race, République et barbares (1916) • Remarques (1917–18) • Tombeau de Jean Letellier, un jeune soldat de la grande guerre (1920) • Debussy (1922) • Présences (1925) • Musique et poésie (1928) • Variables, (1929) • Le martyre de Saint-Augustin (1929) • Musiciens (1931) • Vues sur Napoléon (1933) • Vues sur l'Europe (1936) • Valeurs, (1936) • Remarques • Présentations de la France 1940-44 (1951), posthume • Pour un portrait de Goya (1983), posthume • Âmes et visages (1989), posthume • Portraits et préférences (1991), posthume • Idéées et visions (2002), posthume - anthologie coll. Bouquins Tome I • Valeurs (2002), posthume - anthologie coll. Bouquins Tome II
Letters
Letters
• Correspondence avec Paul Claudel (1951) • Correspondance avec Romain Rolland (1954) • Ignorées du destinataire (1955) • Correspondance avec Antoine Bourdelle (1961) • Correspondance avec Charles Péguy (1961) • Correspondance avec André Gide (1963) • Correspondance avec Georges Rouault (1969) • Correspondance avec Jacques Copeau (1982) • L'art et la vie, correspondances diverses (1984) • Correspondance avec Yves Le Febvre (1986) • Correspondance avec Jean Paulhan (1987) • Le Condottière et le Magicien, correspondance avec Jacques Doucet (1994) This article was translated from the French Wikipedia
Identity
Identity
André Suarès is recorded as having received Concours général, Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française and Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1868
André Suarès born at Marseille.
1948
André Suarès died at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.
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Marseille.
Birth place
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.
Death place
Literature
• Lettres d'un solitaire sur les maux du Temps (1899) • Images de la grandeur (1901) • Le Livre de l'émeraude (1902) • Sur la mort de mon frère (1904) • Xénies (1923) • Saint-Juin de la Primevère (1926) • Clowns (1927) • Marsiho (1931) • Cirque (1932) • Le Voyage du condottière (1932) • Cité, nef de Paris (1933) • Le Crépuscule sur la mer (1933), réédition partielle du Livre de l'émeraude • Temples grecs, maisons des Dieux (1937) • Cantique des cantiques (1938) • Passion (1939) • Paris (1950), posthume • Rosalinde sur l'eau (1950), posthume • Le Paraclet (1976), posthume • Vita-Nova (1977), posthume • Talisman d'Avila (1980), posthume • Ce Monde doux-amer (1980), posthume • Don Juan (1987), posthume • Landes et marines (1991), posthume • Provence (1993), posthume • Rome (1998), posthume
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He also worked under the names Caërdal, ResSua and Félix Bangor. The authorities additionally record the headings Caërdal, André de Séipse, Félix André Yves Scantrel, Isaac Félix Suarès and Andre Suares. His recorded language was French. Suarès received Concours général, Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française, Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris and Montyon Prize.
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