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Barrès, (Auguste-) Maurice
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pronunciation:
[bares]
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| lived:
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| French politician and novelist, born in Charmes-sur-Moselle, NE France. He went to Paris to study law, but turned to literature, embarking on a solitary project of self-analysis, comprising Sous l'oeil des Barbares (1888), Un Homme libre (1889), and Le Jardin de Bérénice (1891). He became politically involved in favour of General Boulanger and won a seat in the Chambre (1889–93). Les Déracinés (1897) began a further series of novels on ‘la désagrégation de la France’. An ardent defender of the ‘culte du moi’ and of a lyrical patriotism, he was an important figure in l'Action Française from 1904. Le Gréco appeared in 1911 and La Colline Inspirée in 1913. Although a certain disillusionment is evident in Un Jardin sur l'Oronte (1922) and occasionally in his Cahiers (1936), he influenced a whole generation, in reaction to which the Surrealists organized a famous ‘trial’ against him on 13 May 1921. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1906. |
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