Jean Prévost (1901–1944)
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(eng) Please do not combine or confuse this writer with the Canadian politician Jean Prévost (1870-1915); or the artist Jean Prévost (born 1934); or the Swiss physician Jean Louis Prévost (1838-1927).
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- Gangbare naam
- Prévost, Jean
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Captaine Goderville (nom de guerre)
- Geboortedatum
- 1901-06-13
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1944-08-01
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- France
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- France
- Geboorteplaats
- Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours, France
- Plaats van overlijden
- Sassenage, France
- Opleiding
- Lycée Pierre-Corneille, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Lycée Henri IV, Paris, France
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris - Beroepen
- writer
resistance fighter
journalist
essayist - Relaties
- Aragon, Louis (co-editor)
Prévost, Françoise (daughter)
Auclair, Marcelle (wife)
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de (friend and colleague) - Organisaties
- French Resistance
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Grand Prix de Littérature de l'Académie française (1943)
- Korte biografie
- Jean Prévost was considered one of the most gifted French writers of his generation. In 1926 he married his first wife, writer Marcelle Auclair, and the couple had three children. He was drafted at the beginning of World War II and later helped create the underground newspaper Les Étoiles. He won the grand prize for literature of the Académie française in 1943. He died a hero of the French Resistance in an ambush near Grenoble in 1944.
- Ontwarringsbericht
- Please do not combine or confuse this writer with the Canadian politician Jean Prévost (1870-1915); or the artist Jean Prévost (born 1934); or the Swiss physician Jean Louis Prévost (1838-1927).
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It has been said that to solve a psychological problem one has to forge a challenge of a similar size; judging by the size of the obstacles that the hero strives to overcome, by the goals he sets, his problem is vast, much bigger than the slander of the stolen case. This is how the reader complaining about not being able to discern the protagonist's features nevertheless arrives at a character study in reverse, as it were.
It is, on the other hand, a question of perspective, which in this book is defined through an interesting stylistic quirk: it has not quite parted with the classical tradition, but it is obviously not content with the insight it offers in respect to the emotional states and thoughts of the hero, and so dips often into the modernist custom of directly inhabiting his mind. And here, again, we are confronted with the depths of the unsaid and the unthought, the way the protagonist hides his own real motivation behind practicalities and the thin veneer of vindictive reasoning. (Or, possibly, I just could not take seriously the heaps of numbers and strategic business decisions that advance the hero in his quest).
On the stylistic plane, the inconsistencies in these excursions into the mind of the non-narrator - parentheses, italics, whole paragraphs, all of that interrupting a dialog - probably make the work all the more intriguing as a transitional phenomenon, like the irregular orthography of a manuscript implying language change. Surely, the book is more than that, but some of it is a beautiful dried butterfly.
The dried butterfly effect holds true on many levels, as the female characters and the roles they are allowed to hold testify. The mesdames and mesdemoiselles have a distinctly stale 18th c. air about them, and I am willing someone to take issue with the modern reader attitude I am demonstrating in this. I expect they would be hard-pressed to make their point.
Despite several shortcomings I've pointed out so awkwardly, the story is always gripping and the diction unfalteringly elegant.… (meer)