Marthe Robert (March 25, 1914 – April 12, 1996) was a French essayist and translator.
Robert was born in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
on March 25, 1914. In 1941, she met psychoanalyst Michel de M'Uzan, whom she later married. In 1995, she received the
Grand Prix National des Lettres
The grand prix national des Lettres was created in 1950 by the French Ministry of Culture to recognize writers who have contributed to the influence of French literature. It has not been awarded since 1999.
List of laureates
* 1951: Émile Char ...
.
Her work is influenced by
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...
and
psychoanalysis
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might b ...
.
Works
Essays
* ''Introduction à la lecture de Kafka'',
[Suivie de ''L'Épée, Dans notre synagogue, L'Invité des morts, Lampes neuves''.] /https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ditions_du_Sagittaire Éditions du Sagittaire coll. ''L'heure nouvelle'', 1946
* ''Un homme inexprimable. Essai sur l’œuvre de
/https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_von_Kleist Heinrich von Kleist', 1955
* ''Heinrich von Kleist'', Paris, L'Arche, ''Les Grands dramaturges'', 1955
* ''Kafka'', 1960
* ''L’Ancien et le nouveau'', 1963
* ''La Révolution psychanalytique'', 1964, 2 vol.
* ''Sur le papier : essais'', éditions Grasset, 1967
* ''Seul comme Franz Kafka'', 1969
* ''
/https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_des_origines_et_origines_du_roman Roman des origines et origines du roman', 1972
* ''D'Œdipe à Moïse : Freud et la conscience juive'', 1974
* ''Livre de lectures I'', 1977
* ''Artaud vivant'', et ''al.'' 1980
* ''La Vérité littéraire : livre de lectures II'', 1981
* ''En haine du roman : étude sur Flaubert'', 1982
* ''La Tyrannie de l’imprimé : livre de lectures III'', 1984
* ''Le Puits de Babel : livre de lectures IV'', 1987
* ''La Traversée littéraire'', 1994
Translations
* ''Contes'' de
/https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_et_Wilhelm_Grimm Grimm Gallimard, 1976
* ''Kafka'' (textes choisis), Gallimard, coll. ''Bibliothèque idéale'', 1960
* ''Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra'' de
/https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzschecoll. ''Club français du livre'', 1958
References
1914 births
1996 deaths
French literary critics
French women literary critics
French women writers
German–French translators
Writers from Paris
Franz Kafka scholars
Translators of Franz Kafka
20th-century French translators
20th-century French essayists
French women essayists
Translators of Friedrich Nietzsche
Signatories of the 1971 Manifesto of the 343
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