Raphaël Aubert

Raphaël Aubert (born 1953 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer and essayist.

Biography

Early life and education

Raphaël Aubert was brought up in a family of artists. He studied in the Faculty of Arts and Theology at University of Lausanne and in Paris.

Career

His first book ''Proche de l’argile ou la Remontée'', a collection of poems, was published in 1975. He has since then published ten books including short stories and some novels, especially ''La bataille de San Romano'' (''The Battle of San Romano''), the action of which starts at the Louvre and questions the mysteries of Paolo Uccello's famous painting, and ''La Terrasse des éléphants'' (''Elephants's terrace''), novel of the encounter and destiny during the last years of the Vietnam's war.

As a journalist for Radio Télévision Suisse, he has travelled to Russia and various eastern countries, the Near East, the United States and Asia.

His essays include studies of André Malraux and Salman Rushdie, the latter titled ''L’affaire Rushdie'' (The Rushdie Affair), which garnered interest as it was the first study in French on the Indo-British author."Ce petit bouquin objectif et documenté échappe aux lieux communs pour poser – fort et clair – des questions essentielles" (''L'Evénement du Jeudi'', no 308, 27 sept-3 octob. 1990) In ''Le Paradoxe Balthus'' (''The Balthus Paradox''), he develops an iconoclastic argument based on Balthus’s famously controversial painting, ''La Leçon de guitare'' (The Guitar Lesson).

Aubert contributes to various reviews in Switzerland and in France, among which ''art press'' and ''Le Passe Muraille''. He is one of the Swiss correspondents of the "Research and Information Circle André Malraux" and he contributed to the ''André Malraux Dictionary'' (Paris, CNRS Editions, 2011 ).

In 2014, he received the State of Vaud Literature Prize and in 2015, he was knighted in Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

Selected works

*''L'Absolu et la métamorphose'', Genève, Labor et Fides, 1985 ()
*''L'Affaire Rushdie'', Paris, Le Cerf, 1990 ()
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*''La Bataille de San Romano'', Vevey, L'Aire bleue, 2006 ()
*'' Malraux ou la Lutte avec l'ange'', Genève, Labor et Fides, 2001 ()
*''Le Paradoxe Balthus'', Paris, La Différence, 2005 ()
*''Dieu est-il violent?'' Paris, Bayard, 2008 ()
*''La Terrasse des éléphants'' Vevey, L'Aire, 2009 (); L'Aire bleue, 2011, 2015 ()
*''Chronique des treize lunes. Journal 2008'', Vevey, L'Aire, 2009 ()
*'' Malraux & Picasso Une relation manquée'', Paris/Gollion, Infolio, 2013 ()
*''Cet envers du temps. Journal 2013'', Vevey, L'Aire, 2014 ()
*''Le Voyage à Paris. Un carnet de Pierre Aubert'', Lausanne, art&fiction, 2017 ()
*''Balthus L'Antimoderne'', Paris/Gollion, Infolio, 2019 ()

References

Notes

Bibliography

* Francillon, Roger, ed (1999). ''Histoire de la littérature en Suisse romande'', Vol. IV, Lausanne, Payot ()

External links

Lausanne Library
Biographical notice


Author file

Malraux on the web
Literary reference Site

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1953 births
Living people
Writers from Lausanne
Swiss journalists
Swiss male novelists
Swiss writers in French
Swiss male poets
20th-century Swiss poets
20th-century male writers
20th-century Swiss novelists
21st-century Swiss poets
21st-century Swiss novelists
21st-century male writers