biography
pronunciation:
[bah(r)büs]
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| lived:
| (1873–1935)
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| biography:
| Journalist and novelist, born in Asnières, NC France. He began as a neo-Symbolist poet with Pleureuses (1895), becoming known with his novel L'Enfer (1908). A volunteer in World War 1, he was twice cited for gallantry and was discharged wounded in 1917. He gained fame with Le Feu (1916), an account of life in the trenches, for which he was awarded the Prix Goncourt. His purpose was to mingle war memories with moral and political meditations. After Clarté (1919) his work became increasingly political, and his last works, Lénine (1934) and Staline (1935), were written in the Soviet Union, where he was living at the time of his death. |
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