Henry Bauchau (22 January 1913 – 21 September 2012) was a

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psychoanalyst, lawyer, and author of French prose and poetry.

Biography

Henry Bauchau was born in

Mechelen Mechelen (; french: Malines ; traditional English name: MechlinMechelen has been known in English as ''Mechlin'', from where the adjective ''Mechlinian'' is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical contex ...

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on 22 January 1913. He became a trial lawyer in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

in 1936 and was a member of the Belgian Resistance in the Ardennes during World War II. He was married to Mary Kozyrev; their son is the actor

Patrick Bauchau Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau (born 6 December 1938) is a Belgian actor best known for his roles in the films ''A View to a Kill'', '' The Rapture'' and ''Panic Room'', as well as the TV shows '' The Pretender'' and '' House''. ...

. They lived for a time in

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. Bauchau died in

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on 21 September 2012, aged 99.

Publishing

From 1945 to 1951 he worked in publishing. In 1946, he moved to Paris. He was a friend of

Albert Camus Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His work ...

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 Symbolism (arts), symbolist movement, to the advent o ...

Jacques Lacan Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, , ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, and pu ...

, and

Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; See also . 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed t ...

Awards

* 1990 Royal Academy of Belgian Literature * 2002 International Latin Union prize of Romance Language Literatures

Works

* ''Géologie'' (1958; "Geology"), 1958 * ''Gengis Khan'', Mermod, 1960 (reprint Actes sud, 1989) * ''La Machination'' (1969; "The Plot"), (play) * ''Œdipe sur la route'', Actes Sud, 1990, ** * ''La Chine intérieure'' (1974; "Inner China") (poems) * ''Essai sur la vie de Mao Tsé-toung'', Flammarion, 1982, * ''Poésie: 1950-1984'', Actes Sud, 1986 * ''Le régiment noir'', Éperonniers, 1987 * ''Diotime et les lions: récit'', Actes Sud, 1991, * ''L'écriture et la circonstance'', Presses universitaires de Louvain, UCL, 1992 * ''Antigone: roman'', Actes Sud, 1997, * '' La déchirure'' (English: ''The Tear''), Editions Labor, 1998, * ''Journal d'Antigone: 1989-1997'', Actes Sud, 1999 * ''L'enfant bleu: roman'', Actes sud, 2004, * ''Le boulevard périphérique: roman'', Actes sud, 2008, * ''Déluge'', Actes sud, 2010,

References

Bibliography

* Surmonte, Emilia, ''Antigone, La Sphinx d'Henry Bauchau: Les enjeux d'une création'' (Bruxelles etc., Peter Lang, 2011) (Documents pour l'Histoire des Francophonies. Europe, 24).

External links

* 1913 births 2012 deaths Writers from Mechelen Belgian writers in French Belgian male writers Psychoanalysts Prix du Livre Inter winners Members of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique Belgian expatriates in France {{Belgium-writer-stub