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William Faulkner

William Faulkner
Biography[edit] Faulkner was born William Cuthbert Falkner in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons of Murry Cuthbert Falkner (August 17, 1870 – August 7, 1932) and Maud Butler (November 27, 1871 – October 19, 1960).[3] He had three younger brothers: Murry Charles "Jack" Falkner (June 26, 1899 – December 24, 1975), author John Falkner (September 24, 1901 – March 28, 1963) and Dean Swift Falkner (August 15, 1907 – November 10, 1935). Faulkner was born and raised in the state of Mississippi, which had a great influence on him, as did the history and culture of the American South altogether. Soon after Faulkner's first birthday, his family moved to Ripley, Mississippi from New Albany. His family, particularly his mother Maud, his maternal grandmother Lelia Butler, and Caroline Barr (the black woman who raised him from infancy) crucially influenced the development of Faulkner's artistic imagination. As a schoolchild, Faulkner had much success early on. Personal life[edit] Related:  litt

Fiodor Dostoïevski Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Fiodor Dostoïevski Dostoïevski en 1876 Œuvres principales Signature Fiodor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski (aussi Fédor, Fedor ou Théodore[1] en français) Écouter (en russe : Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский) est un écrivain russe, né à Moscou le et mort à Saint-Pétersbourg le . Après une enfance difficile, il fréquente une école d'officiers et se lie avec les mouvements progressistes russes. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Jeunesse et premiers écrits[modifier | modifier le code] Le père de Fiodor, Mikhaïl Andréiévitch Dostoïevski, médecin militaire à l'hôpital des pauvres de Moscou, possède deux villages, acquis en 1831 : Darovoié et Tchermachnia. Après en avoir réussi l'examen d'entrée, Dostoïevski intègre l'École supérieure des Ingénieurs militaires de Saint-Pétersbourg en 1838. Pendant l'été 1844, il démissionne pour se consacrer à son premier roman, Les Pauvres Gens[3]. Le bagne d'Omsk[modifier | modifier le code] Dostoïevski en 1863.

E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e e cummings (in the style of some of his poems—see name and capitalization, below), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. Life[edit] i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes From "i thank You God for most this amazing" (1950) Early years[edit] Edward Estlin Cummings was born into a Unitarian family, son of Edward Cummings and Rebecca Haswell Clarke. Cummings wanted to be a poet from childhood and wrote poetry daily aged eight to 22, exploring assorted forms. masthead from volume 56 of The Harvard Monthly; Cummings was an editor and contributor to this literary journal while at Harvard The war years[edit] From "Buffalo Bill's" (1920) Post-war years[edit] and

William S. Burroughs Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. William S. Burroughs William S. Œuvres principales Principalement connu pour ses romans hallucinés mêlant drogue, homosexualité et anticipation[4], il est associé à la Beat Generation et à ses figures emblématiques : ses amis Jack Kerouac et Allen Ginsberg. « Alors que Kerouac retourna vivre avec sa mère dans les années 1960 et épousa la sœur d’un ami d’enfance, et que Ginsberg régna pendant les années hippies, ce furent les années 1980 et 1990 […] qui allaient être l’ère de William Burroughs, le plus sombre des trois anges de la Beat Generation. »[5] Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] En 1944, Burroughs est détective et travaille avec la pègre à New York, vit avec Joan Vollmer, une jeune femme brillante, passionnée de littérature et de philosophie, dans un appartement partagé avec Jack Kerouac et sa première femme Edie Parker. Œuvres traduites en français[modifier | modifier le code] Œuvres complètes originales[modifier | modifier le code]

Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski;[1]:11–12 Berdichev, Imperial Russia, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924, Bishopsbourne, Kent, England) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole.[note 1] Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English,[2] though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English[note 2] tragic sensibility into English literature.[3] While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, his works are viewed as modernist literature. Early life[edit] Nowy Świat 47, Warsaw, where three-year-old Conrad lived with his parents in 1861 Apollo did his best to home-school Conrad.

Mahmoud Darwich Mahmoud Darwich 1942 (al-Birwa, Galilée, Palestine)- Poète, fondateur et animateur d’al-Karmel, l’une des principales revues littéraires arabes, membre du Comité exécutif de l’OLP et président de l’Union des écrivains palestiniens, Mahmoud Darwich milite au sein du parti communiste israélien et collabore à ses publications al-Ittihad et al-Jadid. Il interrompt un stage d’études à Moscou en 1971 pour gagner à grand bruit Le Caire. Il vit successivement à Beyrouth, Tunis puis Paris. Depuis 1996 il partage sa vie entre Amman et Ramallah. [Chronique de la tristesse ordinaire (Cerf, 1989), Au dernier soir sur cette terre (Actes-Sud, 1994), Pourquoi as-tu laissé le cheval à sa solitude ? Dans le grand départ je t’aime plus encore Dans le grand départ je t’aime plus encore. Sous peu Tu refermeras la ville. De chemin qui me porte. Notre grenadier après toi a perdu sa sève. Plus légères les collines et nos rues dans le crépuscule Et la terre qui dit adieu à sa terre. Je n’ai d’autre patrie que lui.

James Joyce Joyce was born into a middle class family in Dublin, where he excelled as a student at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, then at University College Dublin. In his early twenties he emigrated permanently to continental Europe, living in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe does not extend far beyond Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there; Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal Biography[edit] 1882–1904: Dublin[edit] Joyce's birth and baptismal certificate Joyce at age six, 1888 1904–20: Trieste and Zurich[edit]

Mahmoud Darwich : "Je n’ai nullement cherché à devenir, ou à rester, un symbole de quoi que ce soit" En 2007, à l'occasion de la parution en français du recueil de poèmes "Comme des fleurs d'amandier ou plus loin" de Mahmoud Darwich, André Velter consacrait une émission de "Poésie sur parole" au poète palestinien. En 2007, à l'occasion de la parution en français du recueil de poèmes Comme des fleurs d'amandier ou plus loin de Mahmoud Darwich, André Velter consacrait une émission de "Poésie sur parole" au poète palestinien. Elias Sanbar, traducteur de ce recueil, est au cours de l'entretien l'interprète de Mahmoud Darwich. Les poèmes sont dits en français par Mohamed Rouabhi. Des poèmes courts qui célèbrent les plus simples choses de la vie, que Darwich devait quitter quelques mois plus tard. Dans ses Entretiens sur la poésie, parus en 2006, celui que l’on surnommait « le poète de la résistance, le poète de la Palestine » disait : "Je n’ai nullement cherché à devenir, ou à rester, un symbole de quoi que ce soit.

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. In 1921, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea (1952), Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of his remaining life. Life Early life Hemingway was the second child and first son born to Clarence and Grace Hemingway. Hemingway's mother frequently performed in concerts around the village. World War I Hemingway in uniform in Milan, 1918. Toronto and Chicago Cuba

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