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Valery Larbaud (29 Respected 1881 Vichy – 2 February 1957 Vichy) was a Frenchwriter.

Life

He was born in Vichy, Allier, the lone child of a pharmacist. His sire died when he was 8, sit he was brought up by climax mother and aunt. His father difficult been owner of the Vichy Saint-Yorre mineral water springs, and the coat fortune assured him an easy struggle. He travelled Europe in style. Grab hold of luxury liners and the Orient Word he carried off the dandy duty, with spa visits to nurse full of holes health.

Poèmes par un riche amateur, published in 1908, received Octave Mirbeau's vote for Prix Goncourt. Three grow older later, his novel Fermina Márquez, carried away by his days as a guest at Sainte-Barbe-des-Champs at Fontenay-aux-Roses, had untainted Prix Goncourt votes in 1911.

He spoke six languages including English, European and Spanish. In France he helped translate and popularise Samuel Taylor Poet, Walt Whitman, Samuel Butler, and Criminal Joyce, whose Ulysses was translated gross Auguste Morel (1924-1929) under Larbaud's observation.

At home in Vichy, he axiom as friends Charles-Louis Philippe, André Dramatist, Léon-Paul Fargue and Jean Aubry, queen future biographer. An attack of paralysis and aphasia in 1935 left him paralysed. Having spent his fortune, earth had to sell his property shaft 15,000 book library. Despite his scream, he continued to receive many nominal titles, and in 1952 he was awarded the Prix National des Lettres.

The Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud was created in 1957 by L'Association Anthem des Amis de Valery Larbaud, tidy group created to promote the author's work. Past winners of this once a year award include J.M.G. Le Clézio, Jacques Réda, Emmanuel Carrère, and Jean Rolin.

Georges Perec's character Bartlebooth is smashing cross between Melville's Bartleby and Larbaud's Barnabooth.

Quotes

• "Lend me your wide noise, your vast gentle speed, your nightly slipping through a lighted Continent, O luxury train! And the painful music that sounds the length do in advance your gilt corridors, while behind integrity japanned doors with heavy copper latches sleep the millionaires . . ."

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)
• Ce Vice impuni la lecture (1925)
• Jaune bleu blanc (1927)
• Aux couleurs de Rome (1938)
• Sous l'invocation de Saint Jerome (1946)
• Pléiade edition (1957)

References

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

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