Marcel Thiry
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Marcel Thiry
Thiry, Marcel (1897-1977). Belgian poet and story-teller. Escaping from occupied Belgium in World War I, Thiry saw action with a Belgian corps in Galicia, was caught up in the Russian Revolution, and then contrived to return home to Liège via Siberia, North America, and France. His poetry, as in Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver (1924), echoes the fitful nostalgia of a Cendrars or an Apollinaire, mingling exhilaration with a sense of disorientation, and developing an image of modernity both wistful and sceptical. Thiry's fantastic tales draw strength from an insistence upon plausible material fact (Nouvelles du grand possible, 1958); his science-fiction novel Échec au temps (1945) builds rigorously on the premiss that Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo.
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Marcel Thiry
| Marcel Thiry | |
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| Born | 13 March 1897 Charleroi, Belgium |
| Died | 5 September 1977 (aged 80) Vaux-sous-Chêvremont, Belgium |
| Nationality |  Belgium |
| Occupation | poet |
| French literature |
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| By category |
| French literary history |
| French writers |
| Portals |
| France · Literature |
Marcel Thiry (Charleroi, 13 March 1897 - Vaux-sous-Chêvremont, 5 September 1977) was a French-speaking Belgian poet.
He was awarded the Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud in 1976 for Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver, a book of poems reminiscent of Cendrars and Apollinaire. He is the father of virologist Lise Thiry.
Works
- Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver (1924)
- Échec au temps (1945)
- Nouvelles du grand possible (1958)
- Lettre aux jeunes Wallons (1960)
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References
- France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.
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