Eugene Dabit (21 September 1898 in
Mers-les-Bains – 21 August 1936 in
Sevastopol
Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...
) was a French socialist writer.
He was part of the group "
proletarian literature
Proletarian literature refers here to the literature created by left-wing writers mainly for the class-consciousness, class-conscious proletariat. Though the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' states that because it "is essentially an intended device of ...
" and had a great success for his novel ''L'Hôtel du Nord'' which won the du ''Prix du roman populiste'' and was
filmed in 1938 by
Marcel Carné. He maintained an important correspondence with
Roger Martin du Gard. Dabit was a friend and literary and political associate of
André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism ...
; he died of an illness while accompanying Gide on a trip to the Soviet Union in 1936.
[Introduction, Eugène Dabit, ''L'Hôtel du Nord'' (Denoël, 1993).]
Dabit was also an artist, having studied at the
École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centur ...
with
Louis-François Biloul.
Works
*Petit Louis (1930)
*L'Hôtel du Nord (1929)
*Yvonne (1929 - inédit, éd. 2009)
*La zone verte (1935, rééd. 2009)
*Les maîtres de la peinture espagnole (1937)
*Au Pont Tournant
*Le mal de vivre (avec Étrangères)(1937)
*Train de vies
*Faubourgs de Paris
*Un mort tout neuf
*L’île (Gallimard, 1934)
*Villa Oasis ou Les faux bourgeois (1932)
*Ville lumière
*Journal intime (1926-1938)
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20th-century French novelists
20th-century French male writers
1898 births
1936 deaths
French socialists
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
French male novelists