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Valery Larbaud (29 August,1881 Vichy
Vichy

Vichy is a Communes of France in the Departments of France of Allier in Auvergne in central France. It is known as a Spa town and resort town....
 – 2 February,1957 Vichy
Vichy

Vichy is a Communes of France in the Departments of France of Allier in Auvergne in central France. It is known as a Spa town and resort town....
) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
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Life
He was born in Vichy
Vichy

Vichy is a Communes of France in the Departments of France of Allier in Auvergne in central France. It is known as a Spa town and resort town....
, the only child of a pharmacist
Pharmacist

Pharmacists are health professionals who practice the science of pharmacy. In their traditional role, pharmacists typically take a request for medicines from a prescribing health care provider in the form of a medical prescription and dispense the medication to the patient and counsel them on the proper use and adverse effects of that medic...
. His father died when he was 8, and he was brought up by his mother and aunt. His father had been owner of the Vichy Saint-Yorre mineral water springs, and the family fortune assured him an easy life. He travelled Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 in style. On luxury liners and the Orient Express
Orient Express

The Orient Express is the name of a long-distance passenger train originally operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. Its route has changed many times, and several routes have in the past concurrently used the name ....
 he carried off the dandy
Dandy

A dandy is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies. Historically, especially in late 18th- and early 19th-century United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a dandy, who was self-made, often strove to imitate an aristocratic style of life despite coming from a middle-class...
 role, with spa visits to nurse fragile health.

Poèmes par un riche amateur, published in 1908, received Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde....
's vote for Prix Goncourt
Prix Goncourt

The prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year".Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the acad?mie Goncourt....
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Valery Larbaud (29 August,1881 Vichy
Vichy

Vichy is a Communes of France in the Departments of France of Allier in Auvergne in central France. It is known as a Spa town and resort town....
 – 2 February,1957 Vichy
Vichy

Vichy is a Communes of France in the Departments of France of Allier in Auvergne in central France. It is known as a Spa town and resort town....
) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
.

Life


He was born in Vichy
Vichy

Vichy is a Communes of France in the Departments of France of Allier in Auvergne in central France. It is known as a Spa town and resort town....
, the only child of a pharmacist
Pharmacist

Pharmacists are health professionals who practice the science of pharmacy. In their traditional role, pharmacists typically take a request for medicines from a prescribing health care provider in the form of a medical prescription and dispense the medication to the patient and counsel them on the proper use and adverse effects of that medic...
. His father died when he was 8, and he was brought up by his mother and aunt. His father had been owner of the Vichy Saint-Yorre mineral water springs, and the family fortune assured him an easy life. He travelled Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 in style. On luxury liners and the Orient Express
Orient Express

The Orient Express is the name of a long-distance passenger train originally operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. Its route has changed many times, and several routes have in the past concurrently used the name ....
 he carried off the dandy
Dandy

A dandy is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies. Historically, especially in late 18th- and early 19th-century United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a dandy, who was self-made, often strove to imitate an aristocratic style of life despite coming from a middle-class...
 role, with spa visits to nurse fragile health.

Poèmes par un riche amateur, published in 1908, received Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde....
's vote for Prix Goncourt
Prix Goncourt

The prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year".Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the acad?mie Goncourt....
. Three years later, his novel Fermina Márquez
Fermina Márquez

Fermina M?rquez is a short novel in twenty chapters written by France writer Valery Larbaud. It was considered for the Prix Goncourt in 1911 but did not win....
, inspired by his days as a boarder at Sainte-Barbe-des-Champs at Fontenay-aux-Roses
Fontenay-aux-Roses

Fontenay-aux-Roses is a commune in France in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located . from the Kilometre Zero.?cole Normale Sup?rieure was a girls school located in the area....
, had some Prix Goncourt
Prix Goncourt

The prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year".Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the acad?mie Goncourt....
 votes in 1911.

He spoke six languages including English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
, Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 and Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
. In France he helped translate and popularise Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an England poet, critic and Philosophy who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romanticism in England and one of the Lake Poets....
, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman

Walter Whitman was an United States Poetry of the United States, essayist, journalism, and humanism. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and literary realism, incorporating both views in his works....
, Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (novelist)

Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian era author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh , his two best-known works, but also extending to examinations of Christianity orthodoxy, substantive studies of history of evolutionary thought, studies of Italia...
, and James Joyce
James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
, whose Ulysses
Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris....
 was translated by Auguste Morel (1924-1929) under Larbaud's supervision.

At home in Vichy, he saw as friends Charles-Louis Philippe
Charles-Louis Philippe

Charles-Louis Philippe, French novelist, was born in C?rilly , central France, on 4 August 1874, and died in Paris on 21 December 1909....
, André Gide
André Gide

Andr? Paul Guillaume Gide was a France author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the Symbolism movement, to the advent of Anti-imperialism between the two World Wars....
, Léon-Paul Fargue
Léon-Paul Fargue

L?on-Paul Fargue was a French poet and essayist.He was born in Paris, France. As a poet he was noted for his poetry of atmosphere and detail....
 and Jean Aubry, his future biographer. An attack of hemiplegia
Hemiplegia

Hemiplegia is a condition in which one-half of a patient's body is paralysis. Hemiplegia is more severe than hemiparesis, wherein one half of the body is weakened but not paralysed....
 and aphasia
Aphasia

Aphasia , also known as rhymnasia, is a loss of the ability to produce and/or comprehend language, due to injury to brain areas specialized for these functions, such as Broca's area, which governs language production, or Wernicke's area, which governs the interpretation of language....
 in 1935 left him paralysed. Having spent his fortune, he had to sell his property and 15,000 book library. Despite his illness, he continued to receive many honorary titles, and in 1952 he was awarded the Prix National des Lettres.

The Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud

The prix litt?raire Valery-Larbaud is a France literary prize created in 1967, ten years after writer Valery Larbaud's death, by L'Association Internationale des Amis de Valery Larbaud, an organization dedicated to the promotion of his works....
 was created in 1957 by L'Association Internationale des Amis de Valery Larbaud, a group created to promote the author's work. Past winners of this yearly award include J.M.G. Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cl?zio writing under the pen name J. M. G. Le Cl?zio, is a France author and Nobel Prize in Literature. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 prix Renaudot for his novel Le Proc?s-Verbal....
, Jacques Réda
Jacques Réda

Jacques R?da is a France poet, jazz critic, and fl?neur. He was chief editor of the Nouvelle Revue Fran?aise from 1987 to 1996....
, Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carr?re is a France author, screenwriter and director. He is the son of Louis Carr?re d'Encausse and French historian H?l?ne Carr?re d'Encausse....
, and Jean Rolin
Jean Rolin

Jean Rolin is a France writer andjournalist. He received the Albert Londres prize for journalism in1988, and his novel L'organisation received the Medicis award...
.

Georges Perec
Georges Perec

Georges Perec was a highly-regarded France Judaism novelist, filmmaker and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group....
's character Bartlebooth is a cross between Melville
Herman Melville

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. His first three books gained much attention, the first becoming a bestseller, but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime....
's Bartleby
Bartleby

Bartleby may refer to:*"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street", a short story by United States author Herman Melville*Bartleby.com, an e-text archive...
 and Larbaud's Barnabooth.

Quotes


  • "Lend me your vast noise, your vast gentle speed, your nightly slipping through a lighted Europe, O luxury train! And the agonizing music that sounds the length of your gilt corridors, while behind the japanned doors with heavy copper latches sleep the millionaires . . ."


Works


  • Poèmes par un riche amateur (1908) as A.O. Barnabooth.
  • Fermina Márquez
    Fermina Márquez

    Fermina M?rquez is a short novel in twenty chapters written by France writer Valery Larbaud. It was considered for the Prix Goncourt in 1911 but did not win....
     (1911)
  • A.O. Barnabooth (1913)
  • Enfantines (1918)
  • Beauté, mon beau souci (1920)
  • Amants, heureux amants (1923)
  • Ce Vice impuni la lecture (1925)
  • Jaune bleu blanc (1927)
  • Aux couleurs de Rome (1938)
  • Sous l'invocation de Saint Jerome (1946)
  • Pléiade edition (1957)


External links

  • Works by Valery Larbaud (public domain in Canada)