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Valery Larbaud - Wikipedia

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Valery Larbaud
Larbaud, c.1900
Born	(1881-08-29)29 August 1881 Vichy, France
Died	2 February 1957(1957-02-02) (aged 75) Vichy, France
Occupation	Writer, translator, critic
Notable works	Fermina Márquez

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Valery Larbaud (29 August 1881 – 2 February 1957) was a French writer and poet.^[1]

Life

He was born in Vichy, the only child of a pharmacist Nicolas Larbaud and Isabelle Bureau des Étivaux. His father died when he was 8, and he was brought up by his mother and aunt. His father had been owner of the Vichy Saint-Yorre mineral water springs, and the family fortune assured him an easy life. He travelled Europe in style. On luxury liners and the Orient Express he carried off the dandy role, with spa visits to nurse fragile health.

Poèmes par un riche amateur, published in 1908, received Octave Mirbeau's vote for prix Goncourt. Three years later, his novel Fermina Márquez, inspired by his days as a boarder at Sainte-Barbe-des-Champs at Fontenay-aux-Roses, had some prix Goncourt votes in 1911 but did not win; nonetheless, it is still considered to be a minor classic of French literature and one of Larbaud's best known works.

He spoke six languages including English, Italian and Spanish. In France he helped translate and popularise Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walt Whitman, Samuel Butler, and James Joyce, whose Ulysses was translated by Auguste Morel (1924–1929) under Larbaud's supervision.

At home in Vichy, he saw as friends Charles-Louis Philippe, André Gide, Léon-Paul Fargue and Jean Aubry, his future biographer. An attack of hemiplegia and aphasia in 1935 left him paralysed. Having spent his fortune, he had to sell his property and 15,000 book library. Despite his illness, he continued to receive many honorary titles, and in 1952 he was awarded the Grand prix national des Lettres.

The prix Valery Larbaud was created in 1967 by L'Association Internationale des Amis de Valery Larbaud, a group founded to promote the author's work. Past winners of this yearly award include J.M.G. Le Clézio, Jacques Réda, Emmanuel Carrère, and Jean Rolin.

Works

Poèmes par un riche amateur (1908) as A.O. Barnabooth.
Fermina Márquez (1911)
A.O. Barnabooth (1913)
Enfantines (1918)
Beauté, mon beau souci (1920)
Amants, heureux amants (1923)
Mon plus secret conseil... (1923)
Ce Vice impuni, la lecture : domaine anglais (1925)
Jaune bleu blanc (1927)
Aux couleurs de Rome (1938)
Ce Vice impuni, la lecture : domaine français (1941)
Sous l'invocation de saint Jérôme (1946)
Chez Chesterton
Ode à une blanchisseuse

References

^ "britanica". Retrieved 18 April 2016.

MOUSLI, Béatrice, "Valery Larbaud", coll. Grandes Biographies, Paris, Pub. Flammarion, 1998, Grand Prix de la Biographie de l’Académie Française 1998.

MOUSLI, Béatrice, "Voyager avec Valery Larbaud", Paris, Pub. La Quinzaine/Louis Vuitton, 2003.

France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.

External links

Media related to Valery Larbaud at Wikimedia Commons
French Wikisource has original text related to this article: Auteur:Valery Larbaud
French Wikiquote has quotations related to: Valery Larbaud
Works by or about Valery Larbaud at the Internet Archive
Works by Valery Larbaud^{[dead link‍]} (public domain in Canada)
Inventory and analysis of Valery Larbaud's non-novelistic writings Université McGill: le roman selon les romanciers (in French)

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