Charles Du Bos

Charles Du Bos was a French writer, literary critic and translator (1882–1939). He was born at Paris and died at La Celle-Saint-Cloud.

Charles Du Bos in brief

Born
1882
Died
1939
Known for
writer, literary critic and translator
Place of birth
Paris
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Formation and teaching

Charles Du Bos studied at Balliol College, Lycée Janson-de-Sailly and Lycée Gerson. The record notes the qualification bachelor's degree.

Catalogued works

45 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1851 to 2008.

Begegnung mit Rainer Maria Rilke. La comtesse de Noailles et le climat du génie. Ernest Chausson. Dialog mit André Gide. Extraits d'un journal, 1908-1928. Qu'est-ce que la littérature? Notes sur Mérimée. Approximations (troisième série). Approximations (4. série). Approximations (sixième série). Essais et poèmes, 1931. Byron and the need of fatality. Le dialogue avec André Gide. Approximations: quatrième série. Journal ... --. Charles Du Bos. What is literature? Choix de textes. Approximations. Approximation, dated 1965. Approximations (cinquième série), dated 1932. Charles du Bos et L'Europe des Esprits. Goethe, Nietzsche, Keats, George Eliot, Florence 1904, L'Esprit francais, Bergson. Cahiers Charles du Bos no. 21, dated 1977. Charles du Bos sur Dante, Gabriel, Rossetti. Cahiers Charles du Bos no. 22, dated 1978. Charles du Bos sur Jacques Maritain, Henry Bars sur Charles du Bos. Cahiers Charles du Bos no. 23, dated 1979. Commentaires, dated 1946. Der Weg zu Goethe, dated 1949. Du Spirituel dans l'ordre litte raire, dated 1967. Goethe, dated 1949. Grandeur et misere de Benjamin Constant. Grandeur et misère de Benjamin Constant, dated 1946. Journal 1921-1923, dated 1946. La comtesse de Noailles et le climat du genie, dated 1949. Lettres de Charles Du Bos et réponses de André Gide, dated 1950. Robert et Elizabeth Browning, ou, La plénitude de l'amour humain, dated 1982. Vita e letteratura, con una prefazione di Mario Luzi, dated 1943. Byron et le besoin de la fatalité, dated 1929. Du spirituel dans l'ordre littéraire, dated 1967. La salle des pas-perdus a l'ancien Palais de Justice (The antechamber of the Palais de Justice, Paris), dated 1855, etching (from a pewter plate), held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 17.78.19. Château de Chenonceau, No 1, after Ducerceau, dated 1856, etching on laid paper; only state, held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 67.630.11. It Rocks but is Not Sunk, dated 1854, etching on ivory laid paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1909.182. Still Life: Apples and Green Glass, dated 1925, watercolor and graphite on ivory wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1933.473. Hinoki, dated 2007, cypress, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2007.771a-j. Landscape, dated c. 1895, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1894.1037. The Shower, dated c. 1851, etching on light gray chine laid down on white wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1887.438. [Charles Du Bosc correspondence]., dated 2008-, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 3 named public collections.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 57 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Art Institute of Chicago: 5 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

9 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Charles Du Bos, un homme sans œuvre ? Charles Du Bos, Essays on European Literature, 2015. Du Bos, Charles, Encyclopedia of the Essay, 2012. Charles Du Bos, Blackfriars, 1945. Charles Du Bos : l'intime critique, Littérature, 2006. Charles du Bos, lecteur de Thomas Hardy, Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2011. « Je suis un catholique » : la mémoire spirituelle de Flaubert chez les critiques chrétiens de l’entre-deux-guerres, Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique, 2019. Le Flaubert de Charles Du Bos, Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique, 2009. A Portrait of Gilson, Studia Gilsoniana, 2020.

Digitised editions and texts

6 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Il Regno, a. I n. 27 (29 maggio 1904) (1904) — Internet Archive. Qu'est-ce que la Littérature? Traduit de l'anglais par Mme Charles Du Bos et Dernier Journal Intime suivi de Hommage a Ch. Du Bos par François Mauriac (1945) — Internet Archive. Il Regno, a. I n. 31 (26 giugno 1904) (1904) — Internet Archive. Journal 1921-1923 (1923) — Internet Archive. Journal V (1929) (1954) — Internet Archive. Grandeur Et Misere De Benjamin Constant (1946) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 10 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 7 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 7 means 7 genuinely separate publishers of record. 12 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Charles Du Bos studied at Balliol College, Lycée Janson-de-Sailly and Lycée Gerson. the recorded working language is French.

The authority associates the name with Club des longues moustaches.

Employment is recorded with La Nouvelle Revue française.

Distinctions recorded are Alfred Née Award.

Chronology

  1. 1882Charles Du Bos born at Paris.
  2. 1904Il Regno, a. I n. 27 (29 maggio 1904) digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1904Il Regno, a. I n. 31 (26 giugno 1904) digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1923Journal 1921-1923 digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1939Charles Du Bos died at La Celle-Saint-Cloud.
  6. 1945Qu'est-ce que la Littérature? Traduit de l'anglais par Mme Charles Du Bos et Dernier Journal Intime suivi de Hommage a Ch. Du Bos par François Mauriac digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 1946Grandeur Et Misere De Benjamin Constant digitised by Internet Archive.
  8. 1954Journal V (1929) digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

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  1. 1.

    “Charles Du Bos”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q708335: Charles Du Bos

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