biography
| name: |
Suarès, Isaac Felix
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known as André
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pronunciation:
[swahres]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1868–1948)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Vallon de l'Oriol, E France, into a Jewish family from Marseille. A Normalien and Symbolist, he published Le Bouclier du Zodiaque in 1907. He wrote c.100 works, among them autobiographical texts, Sur la Mort de mon frère (1904), essays on Tolstoy (1911), Pascal, Ibsen, Dostoïevski (1912), Péguy (1915), and Cervantes (1918), on La Nation contre la Race (1916), and Vues sur l'Europe (1936, published 1939). He did not write any novels, which he considered a minor genre. He was one of the first to denounce the ideology of Mein Kampf, ‘cet office d'extermination’. He published Voyage du Condottiere (1910–32) on Venice, Florence, and Siena, where he declared that ‘le voyageur est encore ce qui importe le plus dans un voyage’. The section on Rome was not published until 1998. |
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