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Henry Malherbe

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Henri Malherbe

Aliases: Henri Émile Hermand Malherbe / Henry Croisilles

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1886-02-04 （Bucharest）
Died
1958-03-17 （Paris） age 72
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Residence History
Bucharest → Paris

Career

Occupations
writer, journalist, music critic
Active Years
1912-1958
Affiliations
Association des écrivains combattants
Memberships
Association des écrivains combattants

Awards

Prix Goncourt
1917
Work: La flamme au poing
Organization: Académie Goncourt
Result: winner
Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur
1953
Organization: French Government
Result: 受章

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

La flamme au poing

1917 novel

A novel about World War I, symbolizing the flame of France in the fist.

warpatriotismhuman suffering
Translations
  • English translation: The Flame that is France

Bibliography

  • Paul Hervieu (1912)
  • La Flamme au poing (1917)
  • Le Jugement dernier (1920)
  • La Rocque: un chef, des actes, des idées (1934)
  • La passion de la Malibran (1937)
  • Richard Wagner révolutionnaire (1938)
  • Aux États-Unis, printemps du monde (1945)
  • Franz Schubert, son amour, ses amitiés (1949)
  • Carmen (1951)

Translations of Works

  • The Flame that is France (English translation, 1918)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
poetic proseintense imagery
Recurring Motifs
horrors of warmusic and passion

Legacy

Known for winning the Prix Goncourt, contributed to WWI literature and music criticism. Founder of Association des écrivains combattants.

Quotes

  • For his accounts of agony, grief, death... he finds words of bare simplicity. But always in the intensity... he is a poet.
    Source: North American Review (1918)

Trivia

  • Some sources give 1887 as his year of birth.
  • First president of the Association des écrivains combattants.