Germaine Bree (1907–2001)
Autor de Camus: A Collection of Critical Essays
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Wake Forest University
Obras de Germaine Bree
Women's Poetry in France, 1965-1995: A Bilingual Anthology (Contemporary French Poetry in Translation) (1997) 6 copias
Contes et nouvelles, 1950-1960 5 copias
Twentieth century French drama 3 copias
Camus: La Chute 1 copia
Littérature Française -1920-1970 1 copia
Those French Comedies 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Four Novels: The Square / Moderato Cantabile / 10:30 on a Summer Night / The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas (1965) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 306 copias
Four French Symbolist Poets: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé: Translation and Introduction (1981) — Prólogo — 6 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1907-10-02
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2001-09-22
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- France (birth)
USA (naturalized 1952) - Lugar de nacimiento
- Lasalle, Gard, France
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Channel Islands, France
Algeria - Educación
- Bryn Mawr
University of Paris - Ocupaciones
- professor
literary scholar
biographer - Organizaciones
- Modern Language Association (president, 1975)
Modern Humanities Research Association
American Association of Teachers of French
The American Pen
American Society of the Legion of Honor - Premios y honores
- Bronze Star(French Army)
Legion d'Honneur
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Medallion of Merit(Wake Forest College) - Biografía breve
- Germaine Bree was born in France and spent much of her childhood in the English-speaking Channel Islands. She received a licence from the University of Paris in 1930, taught in Algeria from 1932 to 1936, and did postgraduate work at Bryn Mawr College. She joined the faculty of Bryn Mawr in 1936.
In World War II, she took a leave of absence from Bryn Mawr from 1943 to 1945 to serve with the French Army. She worked in Algiers and France, and with the French Resistance in Paris, eventually receiving a Bronze Star and the Legion of Honor.
Prof. Bree became was an internationally renowned authority on 20th century French literature and one of America's most distinguished professors in the humanities. She taught at New York University (1953-1960) and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1960-1973) before moving to Wake Forest University in 1973, where she was named Kenan Professor of Humanities and won the university's highest honor, the Medallion of Merit.
After retiring from Wake Forest in 1984, she was a visiting professor at Princeton University, Williams College, and The Ohio State University. Her groundbreaking works on French writers remain standards in her field. Prof. Bree's books on Albert Camus (her friend for 15 years) and Jean-Paul Sartre helped introduce a generation of USA teachers and scholars to these voices of the French modern era.
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- 35
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- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #47,945
- Valoración
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- ISBNs
- 27
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The stories that stood out for me were Anatole France's "The Procurator of Judaea" with its little twist at the end, though the reason I liked it so much is probably because I had heard this story and its twist retold by Professor Vladimir Markov in a Russian literature seminar at UCLA. There were only a few graduate students in the class at the time, held in his office, and I can still see Prof. Markov, modest and elegant in his suit and tie, reenacting the story in two or three sentences. His charmingly ironic telling of it somehow stuck with me these 30 years. The story that I most enjoyed was by an author I had never heard of: Jules Supervielle. "The Child of the High Seas" is an eery story, part ghost-story, part-fantasy. It had a wonderful other-worldliness to it.
The book itself, paperbook, 1st edition from 1960, is falling apart. I lost the table of contents, and now most of the pages are falling out. I think I'll have to discard it. The book is an introduction to (mostly) great French writers, however, I wonder whether these stories are actually the best examples of these authors' writing.
Contains:
"The Chaste Lover," by Anonymous;
"The Princess of Montpensier," by Comtesse de la Fayette;
"This is Not a Story," by Denis Diderot;
"Dead Man's Combe," by Charles Nodier;
"La Grande Breteche," by Honore de Balzac;
"Pandora," by Gerard de Nerval;
"The Generous Gamester," by Charles Baudelaire;
"Hautot and His Son," by Guy de Maupassant;
"Torture Through Hope," by Villiers de L'Isle Adam;
"The White Water-Lily," by Stephane Mallarme;
"The Procurator of Judaea," by Anatole France;
"6 Stories in Three Lines," by Felix Feneon;
"The Japanese Family," "The Serial Novel--Again," by Max Jacob;
"The Little Bouilloux Girl," by Collette;
"The Child of the High Seas," by Jules Supervielle;
"The Room," by Jean-Paul Sartre;
"The Guest," by Albert Camus;
"The Walker-through-Walls," by Marcel Ayme;
"The Animals," by Pierre Gascar;
"Stories and Texts for Nothing, III," by Samuel Beckett… (más)