Édouard Estaunié
Édouard Estaunié (4 February 1862 in Dijon – 2 April 1942 in Paris) was a French novelist.[1][2] Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer, working at the Post and Telegraph service and training further in Holland, before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication" in his Traité pratique de télécommunication électrique.[3] He was elected to the Académie française in 1923. He was also a reviewer, critic, and homme de lettres as well as a novelist.
Biography
Estaunié was born on 4 February 1862 in Dijon.[4] His first novels, Un simple and Bonne Dame, published in 1891,[5] were naturalistic works about provincial mores.[5] Many of his works were set in the provinces, especially in Burgundy.[6] His next novel, L'Empreinte (1896), a satire of life at a Jesuit college, was based on his education and reflected Estaunié's anticlerical views.[5]
After his first three works, Estaunié's novels began to focus on everything that is silenced and unspoken in his characters' lives.[6] In this period, spiritual phenomena, such as "the soul, the 'secret life', and solitude", were "the dominating realities in Estaunié's universe"[7]
In 1908, his novel La Vie secrète won the Prix Femina.
He was elected to the Académie française on 15 November 1923, taking the chair formerly occupied by Alfred Capus.[5] He was also the president of the Société des gens de lettres between 1926 and 1929.[8]
Estaunié died on 1 April 1942,[5] in Paris, two months after his 80th birthday.[4]
Works
Novels
- Un simple (1891)
- Bonne Dame (1891)
- L'Empreinte (1896)
- Le Ferment (1899)
- L'Épave (1891)
- La Vie secrète (prix Femina, 1908)
- Les choses voient (1913)
- Solitudes (stories, 1917)
- L'ascension de M. Baslèvre (1920)
- L'appel de la route (1921). Translated by Ezra Pound in 1923 as The Call of the Road
- L'infirme aux mains de lumière (1923)
- Tels qu'ils furent (1927)
- Madame Clapain (1932)
Scientific works
- Les sources de l'énergie électrique (1895)
- Traité pratique de télécommunication électrique (télégraphie, téléphonie) (1904)
Works about Estaunié
- Daniel-Rops: Édouard Estaunié, Librairie Félix Alcar, 1931.
- John Charpentier et Francis Ambrière, Estaunié, Paris, Firmin Didot, coll. « Visages Contemporains » (no 4), 1932.
- Camille Cé, Regards sur l’œuvre d'Édouard Estaunié, Genève, Droz, 1977.
- Georges Cesbron, Edouard Estaunié, romancier de l'être, Paris, Droz, 1977.
- Ruth Eunice Carter Hok, Édouard Estaunié : The Perplexed Positivist, N.Y., King's Crown Press, 1949.
References
- ^ Scheifley, William H. (1926). The Modern Language Journal. National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations. pp. 357–364.
- ^ Crane, Christina (1954). "A Study of the Priest Type in the Novels of Édouard Estaunié". The French Review. 27 (4): 259–268. ISSN 0016-111X. JSTOR 382915.
- ^ Ethuin, Philippe (2022). ""Télécommunication (s). Aux origines d'un mot (1902-1949)."". Revue française des sciences de l'information et de la communication. 25.
- ^ a b François, Martine. "Estaunié, Louis Marie Édouard". cths.fr. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "Édouard ESTAUNIÉ | Académie française". www.academie-francaise.fr. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ^ a b "ÉDOUARD ESTAUNIÉ (1862-1942) - Encyclopædia Universalis". www.universalis.fr. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ^ Ball, Bertrand Logan (1966). "Estaunié's Naturalistic Period and Spiritual Period". BYU Studies Quarterly: 72.
- ^ " Estaunié, Édouard (1862-1942) ".
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- 1904 Myriam Harry
- 1905 Romain Rolland
- 1906 André Corthis
- 1907 Colette Yver
- 1908 Édouard Estaunié
- 1909 Edmond Jaloux
- 1910 Marguerite Audoux
- 1911 Louis de Robert
- 1912 Jacques Morel
- 1913 Camille Marbo
- 1914
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917 Maurice Larrouy
- 1918 Henri Bachelin
- 1919 Roland Dorgelès
- 1920 Edmond Gojon
- 1921 Raymond Escholier
- 1922 Jacques de Lacretelle
- 1923 Jeanne Galzy
- 1924 Charles Derennes
- 1925 Joseph Delteil
- 1926 Charles Silvestre
- 1927 Marie Le Franc
- 1928 Dominique Dunois
- 1929 Georges Bernanos
- 1930 Marc Chadourne
- 1931 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1932 Ramon Fernandez [fr]
- 1933 Geneviève Fauconnier
- 1934 Robert Francis
- 1935 Claude Silve
- 1936 Louise Hervieu
- 1937 Raymonde Vincent
- 1938 Félix de Chazournes
- 1939 Paul Vialar
- 1940
- 1941
- 1942
- 1943
- 1944 Éditions de Minuit (publisher)
- 1945 Anne-Marie Monnet
- 1946 Michel Robida
- 1947 Gabrielle Roy
- 1948 Emmanuel Roblès
- 1949 Maria Le Hardouin
- 1950 Serge Groussard
- 1951 Anne de Tourville
- 1952 Dominique Rolin
- 1953 Zoé Oldenbourg
- 1954 Gabriel Veraldi
- 1955 André Dhôtel
- 1956 François-Régis Bastide
- 1957 Christian Mégret
- 1958 Françoise Mallet-Joris
- 1959 Bernard Privat
- 1960 Louise Bellocq
- 1961 Henri Thomas
- 1962 Yves Berger
- 1963 Roger Vrigny
- 1964 Jean Blanzat
- 1965 Robert Pinget
- 1966 Irène Monesi
- 1967 Claire Etcherelli
- 1968 Marguerite Yourcenar
- 1969 Jorge Semprún
- 1970 François Nourissier
- 1971 Angelo Rinaldi
- 1972 Roger Grenier
- 1973 Michel Dard
- 1974 René-Victor Pilhes
- 1975 Claude Faraggi
- 1976 Marie-Louise Haumont
- 1977 Régis Debray
- 1978 François Sonkin
- 1979 Pierre Moinot
- 1980 Jocelyne François
- 1981 Catherine Hermary-Vieille
- 1982 Anne Hébert
- 1983 Florence Delay
- 1984 Bertrand Visage
- 1985 Hector Bianciotti
- 1986 René Belletto
- 1987 Alain Absire
- 1988 Alexandre Jardin
- 1989 Sylvie Germain
- 1990 Pierrette Fleutiaux
- 1991 Paula Jacques
- 1992 Anne-Marie Garat
- 1993 Marc Lambron
- 1994 Olivier Rolin
- 1995 Emmanuel Carrère
- 1996 Geneviève Brisac
- 1997 Dominique Noguez
- 1998 François Cheng
- 1999 Maryline Desbiolles
- 2000 Camille Laurens
- 2001 Marie NDiaye
- 2002 Chantal Thomas
- 2003 Dai Sijie
- 2004 Jean-Paul Dubois
- 2005 Régis Jauffret
- 2006 Nancy Huston
- 2007 Éric Fottorino
- 2007 Gwenaëlle Aubry
- 2008 Jean-Louis Fournier
- 2010 Patrick Lapeyre
- 2011 Simon Liberati
- 2012 Patrick Deville
- 2013 Léonora Miano
- 2014 Yanick Lahens
- 2015 Christophe Boltanski
- 2016 Marcus Malte
- 2017 Philippe Jaenada
- 2018 Philippe Lançon
- 2019 Sylvain Prudhomme
- 2020 Serge Joncour
- 2021 Clara Dupont-Monod
- 2022 Claudie Hunzinger [fr]
- 2023 Neige Sinno
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