Eugene Dabit (21 September 1898 in
Mers-les-Bains – 21 August 1936 in
Sevastopol
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) was a French socialist writer.
He was part of the group "
proletarian literature" 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
Marcel Albert Carné (; 18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include ''Port of Shadows'' (1938), ''Le Jour Se Lève'' (1939), ''Les Visiteurs du Soi ...
. 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 writer and author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his begi ...
; 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
; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...
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