Paul Morand
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Paul Morand
Morand, Paul (1888-1976). A sophisticated French diplomat and careful stylist, Morand is best known for his fiction of the 1920s, particularly the two collections of short stories Ouvert la nuit (1922) and Fermé la nuit (1923) and the novel L'Europe galante (1925), which depict the corruption of post-war European and particularly Parisian high society. As a travel writer he excelled in portraits of cities: New York (1929), Londres (1933), and Bucarest (1935), and in his novel Bouddha vivant (1927) he explored the same contrast between Eastern and Western civilization as that evoked in Malraux's La Tentation de l'Occident. His reputation suffered considerably from his having served as Vichy ambassador in Romania and Switzerland during World War II.
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Paul Morand (March 13, 1888, Paris - July 24, 1976) was a French diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet, considered an early Modernist.
Morand was a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as Sciences Po). During the pre-war period, he wrote many short books which are noted for their elegance of style, erudition, narrative concision, and for the author's observation of the countries he visited combined with his upper class views.
Morand's reputation has been marred by his stance during the Second World War, when he collaborated with the Vichy regime and was a vocal anti-Semite. When the Second World War ended, Morand served as an ambassador in Bern, but his position was revoked and he lived in exile in Switzerland.
Post-war, he was a patron of the Hussards literary movement, which opposed Existentialism. Morand went on to become a member of the Académie française; his candidature was initially rejected by Charles de Gaulle, the only instance of a President ever exercising his right to veto electees to the academy. Morand was finally elected ten years later, though he still had to forgo the official investiture.
Morand was a friend of Marcel Proust and has left valuable observations about him.
Bibliography
- Fouquet ou Le Soleil offusqué, éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1961.
- Ouvert la nuit (1922)
- Fermé la nuit (1923)
- L'Europe galante
- Bucarest(1935)
- L'Homme pressé (1941)
- Le Bazar de la Charité (1944)
- Venises (1970)
- Journal inutile (mémoires, en 2 volumes, 2002)
- Rien que la terre,
- Magie noire (1927),
- Paris-Tombouctou,
- New York (1929),
- Champions du monde (1930),
- Papiers d'identité (1930),
- Air indien,
- Londres,
- Rococo,
- La Route des Indes,
- L'heure qu'il est, chroniques de cet infatigable voyageur.
- Le Dernier Jour de l'Inquisition,
- Le Flagellant de Séville,
- Le Coucou et le Roitelet,
- L'Eau sous les ponts,
- Hécate et ses chiens,
- La Folle amoureuse,
- Fin de siècle,(1957)
- Nouvelles d'une vie,
- Les Écarts amoureux
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