biography
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Bazin, Hervé
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pseudonym of Jean-Pierre-Marie Hervé-Bazin
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pronunciation:
[bazĩ]
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| lived:
| (1911–96)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Angers, NW France. He took the surname of his great-uncle, René Bazin. A prolific and successful writer, he expressed himself with violence against the strains of family bondage and industrial civilization, and gained fame with the autobiographical Vipère au poing (1948) which sold over 3 million copies. He also touched on classical themes, as in La Tête contre les murs (1948) and Oui, j'ose aimer (1956). Among many other works are Au nom du fils (1960), Le Neuvième jour (1994), and a further autobiographical novel, La Mort du petit cheval (1949). He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1958, becoming its president in 1973. In 1980 he received the Prix Lénine. |
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