Roger Martin du Gard
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Roger Martin du Gard | |
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Born | Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine |
23 March 1881
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Sérigny, Orne |
Notable work | The Thibaults |
Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature 1937 |
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Roger Martin du Gard (French: [dy gaʁ]; 23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Biography
Trained as a paleographer and archivist, he brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for detail, and because of his concern with documentation and the relationship of social reality to individual development, his fiction has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century. His sympathy for the humanist socialism and pacifism of Jean Jaurès is evident in his work.[1]
He is best known for The Thibaults, a multi-volume roman fleuve which follows the fortunes of two brothers, Antoine and Jacques Thibault, from their upbringing in a prosperous Catholic bourgeois family to the end of the World War I. Six parts of the novel were published between 1922 and 1929. After abandoning a seventh volume in manuscript, he published two more volumes in 1936 and 1940. Written under the shadow of the darkening international situation in Europe in the 1930s, these last parts, which together are longer than the previous six combined, focus on the political and historical situation leading up to the outbreak of the First World War and bring the story to 1918.
Martin du Gard wrote several other novels, including Jean Barois, which was set against the historical context of the Dreyfus Affair. During World War II, he resided in Nice, where he prepared a novel (Souvenirs du lieutenant-colonel de Maumort) which remained unfinished at his death. It was posthumously published in 1983. His other works include plays and a memoir of André Gide, a longtime friend.
Roger Martin du Gard died in 1958 and was buried in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice, France.
Partial bibliography
- Devenir ! (1908)
- Jean Barois (1913)
- Les Thibault (1922–1940) (translated as The Thibaults and Summer 1914)
- Vieille France (1933) (translated as The Postman)
- Notes sur André Gide (1951)
- Souvenirs du lieutenant-colonel de Maumort (English: Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort) (1983)
References
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- Claude Sicard, Roger Martin Du Gard. Les années d'apprentissage littéraire (1881-1910), Champion, 1976.
External links
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- List of Works
- Works by Roger Martin du Gard at Faded Page (Canada)
- Roger Martin du Gard, 1937 Nobel Laureate for Literature
- [[Category:Nobel Prize in {{{1}}} winners]]
- About Roger Martin du Gard
- Petri Liukkonen. "Roger Martin du Gard". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Archived from the original on 4 July 2013.
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- 1881 births
- 1958 deaths
- People from Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Nobel laureates in Literature
- French Nobel laureates
- Lycée Condorcet alumni
- École Nationale des Chartes alumni
- French male novelists
- French socialists
- French pacifists
- 20th-century French novelists