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Suzanne Lilar (

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''Suzanne Verbist''; 21 May 1901 – 11 December 1992Académie Royale de Langues et de Littératures Belges
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, and

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writing in

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. She was the wife of the Belgian Minister of Justice Albert Lilar and mother of the writer Françoise Mallet-Joris and the art historian Marie Fredericq-Lilar. She was a member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature from 1952 to 1992.

Life

Lilar's mother was a

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, her father a

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. After having lived her youth in Ghent, and following a brief first marriage, she moved to

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

, where she became the first woman lawyer, and where in 1929 she married the lawyer Albert Lilar who would later become a

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and

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(Liberal Party). She was the mother of the

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Françoise Mallet-Joris (born 1930) and the 18th-century

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, ...

Marie Fredericq-Lilar (born 1934). After the death of her husband in 1976, she left Antwerp and relocated to

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in 1977.

Education

In 1919 Lilar attended the

State University of Ghent Ghent University ( nl, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium. Established before the state of Belgium itself, the university was founded by the Dutch King William I in 1817, when t ...

, where she studied

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. ...

and was the first woman to receive a

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in 1925. During her studies she attended a seminar on

Hadewych Hadewijch, sometimes referred to as Hadewych or Hadewig (of Brabant or of Antwerp) was a 13th-century poet and mystic, probably living in the Duchy of Brabant. Most of her extant writings are in a Brabantian form of Middle Dutch. Her writings inc ...

. Her interest in the 13th century

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or w ...

and mystic would play an important role in her later

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plays Play most commonly refers to: * Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment * Play (theatre), a work of drama Play may refer also to: Computers and technology * Google Play, a digital content service * Play Framework, a Java framework * P ...

and

novels A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself ...

. Lilar's historico-cultural insight, her analysis of

consciousness Consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience and awareness of internal and external existence. However, the lack of definitions has led to millennia of analyses, explanations and debates by philosophers, theologians, linguisticians, and scien ...

and

emotion Emotions are mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. There is currently no scientific consensus on a definitio ...

, her search for

beauty Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, o ...

and

love Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest Interpersonal relationship, interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of ...

are at the same time current and timeless.

Literary career

Applying a strong intellect to her work through precise language, she was a thoroughly modern writer and

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

who nonetheless remained highly versed in many areas of traditional

western thought Western philosophy encompasses the philosophical thought and work of the Western world. Historically, the term refers to the philosophical thinking of Western culture, beginning with the ancient Greek philosophy of the pre-Socratics. The word ...

(

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). In 1956 Lilar succeeds Gustave Van Zype as member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature. Her oeuvre has been translated in numerous languages.

Early work

Lilar began her literary career as a

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ...

, reporting on

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for the newspaper ''L'Indépendance belge'' in 1931. She later became a

with ''Le Burlador'' (1946), an original reinterpretation of the

myth Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrat ...

Don Juan Don Juan (), also known as Don Giovanni ( Italian), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. Famous versions of the story include a 17th-century play, ''El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra'' ...

from the

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perspective that revealed a profound capacity for

psychological Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries bet ...

analysis. She wrote two more

, ''Tous les chemins mènent au ciel'' (1947), a

theological Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the s ...

drama set in a 14th-century

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, and ''Le Roi lépreux'' (1951), a neo-Pirandellian play about the

Crusades The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were ...

Critical essays

Her earliest

are on the subject of the

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. ''Soixante ans de théâtre belge'' (1952), originally published in

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in 1950 as ''The Belgian Theater since 1890'', emphasizes the importance of a

tradition. She followed this with ''Journal de l'analogiste'' (1954), in which the origin of the experience of beauty and poetry was guided by a path of

analogies Analogy (from Greek ''analogia'', "proportion", from ''ana-'' "upon, according to" lso "against", "anew"+ ''logos'' "ratio" lso "word, speech, reckoning" is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject ...

. A short essay ''Théâtre et mythomanie'' was published in 1958.

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and

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are central to her seminal work ''Le Couple'' (1963), translated in 1965 by

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as ''Aspects of Love in Western Society.'' In writings on

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, the

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, Lilar meditates on the role of the woman in

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throughout the ages. Translated into

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in 1976, it includes an

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Marnix Gijsen Marnix Gijsen (20 October 1899 – 29 September 1984) was a Belgian writer. His real name was Joannes Alphonsius Albertus Goris; his pseudonym relates to Marnix van Sint Aldegonde and the surname of his mother (Gijsen). Early years Gijsen ...

. In the same vein she later wrote critical essays on

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and lite ...

(''À propos de Sartre et de l'amour'', 1967) and

Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even ...

(''Le Malentendu du Deuxième Sexe'', 1969).

Autobiographical works, novels

Lilar wrote two

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books, ''Une Enfance gantoise'' (1976) and ''À la recherche d'une enfance'' (1979), and two

, both of which date from 1960, ''Le Divertissement portugais'' and ''La Confession anonyme'', a

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idealization of love filtered through personal experience. The Belgian director

André Delvaux André Albert Auguste Delvaux (; 21 March 1926 – 4 October 2002) was a Belgian film director. He co-founded the film school INSAS in 1962 and is regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Adapting works by writers such as Johan ...

recreated this novel on film as '' Benvenuta'' in 1983, transposed as an intense examination of a tortured but exalted relationship between a young Belgian woman and her Italian lover. ''Les Moments merveilleux'' and ''Journal en partie double, I & II'' were published as part of ''Cahiers Suzanne Lilar'' (1986).

Select bibliography

* ''Le Burlador'' (1945),

, Éditions des Artistes. Portrait of Author by artist Albert Crommelynck. * ''Tous les chemins mènent au ciel'' (1947), Brussels, Éditions des Artistes; Reedited 1989, Brussels, Les Éperonniers. * ''Le Roi lépreux'' (1951), Brussels, Les Éditions Lumière. * ''The Belgian Theatre since 1890'' (1950),

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, Belgian Government Information Center, 67 pp. * ''Soixante ans de théâtre belge'' (1952). * ''Journal de l'analogiste'' (1954),

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, Éditions Julliard; Reedited 1979, Paris, Grasset. Foreword by

Julien Gracq Julien Gracq (; 27 July 1910 – 22 December 2007; born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, in the French ''département'' of Maine-et-Loire) was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were note ...

, Introduction by Jean Tordeur. * ''Le Jeu'' (1957), Editions Synthèses, nr. 128: 218–239, Woluwe-St.Lambert, Bruxelles. * ''Théâtre et mythomanie'' (1958),

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. * ''La confession anonyme'' (1960), Paris, Éditions Julliard; Reedited 1980, Brussels, Éditions Jacques Antoine, with foreword by the author; 1983, Paris, Gallimard, . The Belgian

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adapted this novel in his film Benvenuta in 1983. * ''Le Divertissement portugais'' (1960), Paris, Éditions Julliard; Reedited 1990, Brussels, Labor, Espace Nord, . * ''Le Couple'' in ''La Nef'', n.s. no. 5, La Française Aujourd'hui, ''La femme et l'Amour'', pp. 33–45. * ''Le Couple'' (1963), Paris, Grasset; Reedited 1970, Bernard Grasset Coll. Diamant, 1972, Livre de Poche; 1982, Brussels, Les Éperonniers, ; Translated as ''Aspects of Love in Western Society'' in 1965, by and with a foreword by Jonathan Griffin, New York,

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, LC 65-19851. * ''A propos de Sartre et de l'amour'' (1967), Paris, Éditions Bernard Grasset; Reedited 1984, Gallimard, . * ''Le Malentendu du Deuxième Sexe'' (1969), with collaboration of Prof. Gilbert-Dreyfus. Paris,

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(''Presses Universitaires de France''). * ''Une enfance gantoise'' (1976). Paris, Grassset, ; Reedited 1986, Bibliothèque Marabout. * ''A la recherche d'une enfance'' (1979). Foreword by Jean Tordeur. Brussels, Éditions Jacques Antoine, with original photos by the author's father. * ''Faire un film avec André Delvaux'' (1982), pp. 209–214. In ''

ou les visages de l'imaginaire'', Ed. A. Nysenhole, Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles. * ''Journal en partie double'' (1986) in ''Cahiers Suzanne Lilar'', Paris, Gallimard, . * ''Les Moments merveilleux'' (1986) in ''Cahiers Suzanne Lilar'', Paris, Gallimard, .

Literary awards

* ''Le Burlador'', 1946. Prix Picard; 1947. Prix Vaxelaire; * ''Journal de l'Analogiste''. 1954.

Prix Sainte-Beuve The Prix Sainte-Beuve, established in 1946, is a French literary prize awarded each year to a writer in the categories "novels" (or "poetry") and "essays" (or "critics"); it is named after the writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. The founding jury ...

; * ''Le Couple''. 1963.

Prix Ève Delacroix Le prix Ève-Delacroix is one of the prizes bestowed by the Académie française. The award which was established in 1977 by the Ève-Delacroix foundation is intended "for the author of a work (essay or novel) combining literary qualities with the ...

; * 1972. Prix quinquennal de la critique de de l'essai, l'

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...

; * 1973. Prix Belgo-Canadien for her oeuvre; * 1977. ''Une enfance gantoise''. Prix Saint-Simon; * 1980. Prix Europalia for her oeuvre; * 1982. A Colloquium on the oeuvre of Suzanne Lilar was organized by Henri Ronse, Director of the "Nouveau Théåtre" in Brussels. Participants included

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, Annie Cohen-Solal, Françoise Mallet-Joris,

Hector Bianciotti Hector Bianciotti (; 18 March 1930 – 12 June 2012) was an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie française. Biography Born Héctor Bianciotti (, ) in Calchín Oeste in Córdoba Province, Argentina, Bianciotti's parents were ...

, Jean Tordeur,

, and Jacques de Decker, and their essays were published in 1986 in the "Cahiers Suzanne Lilar".

Select critical works

* ''Autour de Suzanne Lilar''. Texts of Georges Sion, Françoise Mallet-Joris,

, R.P. Carré, Roland Mortier, Armand Lanoux, Jacques de Decker, Jean Tordeur, Suzanne Lilar. ''Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Langue et de Littérature françaises''. Brussels, 1978, t. LVI, nr. 2, pp. 165–204. * ''Alphabet des Lettres belges de langue française''. Brussels, Association pour la promotion des Lettres belges de langue française, 1982. * René Micha, 1982. ''<> d'André Delvaux: Une adaptation exemplaire de la <> de Suzanne Lilar'', pp. 215–219. In ''

ou les visages de l'imaginaire'', Ed. A. Nysenhole, Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles. * ''Cahiers Suzanne Lilar''. Paris, Gallimard, 1986 (with a bibliography by Martine Gilmont). * Marc Quaghebeur, 1990, ''Lettres belges: entre absence et magie''. Brussels, Labor, Archives du Futur. * Paul Renard, 1991. ''Suzanne Lilar: Bio-Bibliographie'', vol. 17, pp. 1–6 in Nord – Revue de Critique et de Création Littéraires du Nord/ Pas-de-Calais. Suzanne Lilar- Françoise Mallet-Joris, . * Béatrice Gaben-Shults, 1991. ''Le Théåtre de Suzanne Lilar: tentation et refus de mysticisme'', vol. 17, pp. 7–13, in Nord – Revue de Critique et de Création Littéraires du Nord/ Pas-de-Calais. Suzanne Lilar – Françoise Mallet-Joris, . * Colette Nys-Mazure, 1991. ''La part du feu '', vol. 17, pp. 15–22, in Nord – Revue de Critique et de Création Littéraires du Nord/ Pas-de-Calais. Suzanne Lilar – Françoise Mallet-Joris, . * Colette Nys-Mazure, 1991. ''Dossiers Suzanne Lilar'', dans Dossiers Littérature Française de Belgique (Service du Livre Luxembourgeois) fasc. 3(32): 1–27. * Michèle Hecquet, 1991. ''L'Éducation paternelle: Une enfance gantoise'', vol. 17, pp. 23–28, in Nord – Revue de Critique et de Création Littéraires du Nord/ Pas-de-Calais. Suzanne Lilar – Françoise Mallet-Joris, . *Katharina M. Wilson, 1991, Suzanne Lilar ''in:'' ''An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers'', Volume two: L-Z, p. 730 (entry by Donald Friedman), Taylor & Francis, , * Colette Nys-Mazure, 1992, ''Suzanne Lilar''. Editions Labor, Brussels, 150 pp., . * Frans Amelinckx, 1995, ''L'apport de John Donne à l'œuvre de S. Lilar'', pp. 259–270 in ''La Belgique telle qu'elle s'écrit''. * Françoise Mallet-Joris, Portrait of author; Colette Nys-Masure, foreword of ''Suzanne Lilar – Théåtre'', 1999, Collection Poésie Théåtre Roman, Académie Royale de Langue de de Littérature Françaises, * Suzanne Fredericq, 2001, Elegance: A Brief, Perfectly Balanced Instant of Complete Possession of Forms", pp. 14–19 In ''Elegance, Beauty and Truth", Ed. Lewis Pyenson, New Series Vol. 2, Center for Louisiana Studies, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, * Susan Bainbrigge, 2004, Writing about the In-Between in Suzanne Lilar's Une Enfance gantoise, ''Forum for Modern Language Studies'' 40(3):301–313. * Hélène Rouch, 2001–2002, Trois conceptions du sexe:

entre Adrienne Sahuqué et Suzanne Lilar, ''Simone de Beauvoir Studies'', n° 18, pp. 49–60.

Interview

* ''Une enfance gantoise – Une interview de Madame Suzanne Lilar'' In ''Le Rail'', 1977(2): 23–27

References

External links

Académie Royale de Langues et de Littératures BelgesWriting about the In-Between in Suzanne Lilar's Une Enfance gantoise by Susan BainbriggeSuzanne Lilar in Encyclopædia BritannicaSuzanne Lilar in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers, Ed. by Katharina M. Wilson; entry by Donald Friedman, p. 730Suzanne Lilar in Francophone Literatures:An Introductory Survey
by Belinda Jack
Splitting the Difference: Dualisms in Persiles by Diana de Armas Wilson
* ttp://www.lalibre.be/article.phtml?id=5&subid=105&art_id=83334 Article on André Delvaux in La Libre Belgiquebr>Virginia Woolf and AndrogynyL'espace privilégié de l'entre-deux dans l'oeuvre autobiographique de Suzanne Lilar, by Natalya Lenina, Les Cahiers du GRELCEF, 2010 (1): 141–1577Marguerite Yourcenar et Suzanne Lilar : plus qu'une rencontre, une complicité by Michèle GoslarDiscussion of Lilar's criticism of Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex:New Interdisciplinary Essays by Ruth Evans, EditorMaria Teodora Comsa, Le burlador de Suzanne Lilar: mythe et tragédie féminine, 2008, MS Thesis, San Jose State Univ., 112 pp.Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir by Margaret A. SimonsRaphaël Sorin on Don JuanBenvenuta in André Delvaux by Henri Agel, Joseph Marty Interviews with Suzanne Lilar:, and other video clips"Le Malentendu du 2ème sexe" by Suzanne Lilar: 1969 ORTF interview
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