Suarès, André (pseud. of Félix-André-Yves Scantrel) (1868-1948). French critic and poet who used other pseudonyms (André de Séipse, Caërdal, etc.). He devoted himself to the cult of greatness as manifested at the summits of artistic achievement. In a grandiloquent, lyrical style tuned to the void underlying all human experience, his numerous essays and portraits—Tolstoï vivant (1911), Trois hommes: Pascal, Ibsen, Dostoïevski (1913), Le Voyage du condottiere (1910-32)—sometimes illumine their subjects, although much of his own life was spent in shade, umbrage, and haughty isolation.
[David Steel]
André Suarès was one of the pseudonyms used by Félix-André-Yves Scantrel (12 June 1868, Marseille – 7 September 1948, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés) a French poet and critic.
From 1912 onwards, he was one of the four "pillars" of the Nouvelle Revue Française, along with André Gide, Paul Claudel and Paul Valéry.
In 1931, he contributed to a book entitled Marsiho. In this work, written in Paris, he revealed his true feelings about his hometown (Marseille).
André Suarès died in 1948, aged 80.
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