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Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt

ジョルジュ＝アルチュール・ゴルトシュミット

Joruju=Aruchūru Gōrudoshumitto

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1928-05-02 （Reinbek near Hamburg）
Nationality
French
Languages
French, German
Religion
Protestantism
Residence History
Reinbek, Germany → Italy → Megève, France → Haute-Savoie, France

Career

Occupations
writer, translator, professor
Active Years
1967-2015
Affiliations
Lycée Paul Éluard

Awards

Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
1991
Work: Die Absonderung
Result: 受賞
Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen
1993
Result: 受賞
Prix France Culture
2004
Work: Le Poing dans la bouche
Organization: France Culture
Result: 受賞
Joseph-Breitbach-Preis
2005
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Les Collines de Belleville

2015 novel

Autobiographical novel.

exilememory

La Forêt interrompue

1991 novel

Depicts exile experiences.

waridentity

Bibliography

  • Les Collines de Belleville (2015)
  • Heidegger et la langue allemande (2013)
  • La Joie du passeur (2013)
  • L'Esprit de retour (2011)
  • A l'insu de Babel (2009)
  • Une langue pour abri (2009)
  • Un enfant aux cheveux gris (2008)
  • Celui qu’on cherche habite juste à côté (2007)
  • Le Recours (2005)
  • Le Poing dans la bouche (2004)
  • La Traversée des fleuves (1999)
  • La Forêt interrompue (1991)

Translations by Author

  • Translations of Walter Benjamin et al.
  • Franz Kafka 'Le Procès'
  • Friedrich Nietzsche 'Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra'

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Bilingual expressionautobiographical elements
Recurring Motifs
exilelanguagememory

Legacy

French writer and translator of German origin, renowned for translations of Walter Benjamin and others.

Trivia

  • Born into a Jewish family converted to Protestantism.
  • Fled Nazi Germany in 1938.