Contrefables (Envoi autographe de l'auteur à CLAUDE ESTEBAN - COPY INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO CLAUDE ESTEBAN)

SOMLYO György

Verlag: Gallimard, 1974

Edition originale de la traduction française établie par Eugène Guillevic et pour laquelle il n'a pas été tiré de grands papiers. Envoi autographe daté et signé de Georges Somlyo, en français à Claude Esteban - - - - Grand in-8° broché - Claude ESTEBAN, de père espagnol et de mère française, partagé entre deux idiomes, ,est le fondateur de la revue Argile aux éditions Maeght, il fut aussi l'auteur de nombreux écrits sur l'art et sur la poésie, ainsi qu'un des grands intercesseurs de la culture espagnole, il a fait connaitre notamment Jorge Guillén, Octavio Paz, Borges, García Lorca, Quevedo, parmi d'autres et a écrit des articles et préface de nombreux catalogues d'expositions d'artistes dont il se sentait proche, tels Morandi, Ubac, Szenes, Vieira da Silva, Aguayo, Josef Sima, Fernández, Assar, Braque, le Brocquy, Asse, Bazaine, Chagall, etc - - - - - - - - György was born in 1920 in Balatonboglár, and was raised there until 1930 when his family moved to Budapest. He was first conscripted into forced labor between October 1 and December 31, 1941, and was later called up several times until 1944. In November, 1944 he escaped deportation from Józsefváros Railway Station with a fake Swedish Embassy document and ended up at a Swedish protected house. He wrote about his meeting with Raoul Wallenberg and wrote about his escape in his novel Rámpa (Ramp) published in 1984. After the war he studied at the Péter Pázmány University and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He studied philosophy, Hungarian, and French literature and folklore. Upon his return from Paris he worked as a theater script-reader and was the editor-in-chief of the multilingual literary periodical Arion. He was a member of the Mallarmé Academy in Paris and the winner of several awards. His poems and novels were published in several languages. His son, Bálint was born in 1957. György Somlyó died in 2006. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LOEW709

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Titel: Contrefables (Envoi autographe de l'auteur à...
Verlag: Gallimard
Erscheinungsdatum: 1974
Einband: Couverture souple
Zustand: Très bon
Signiert: Signé par l'auteur
Auflage: Edition originale