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Ernest Herzog and Alice Lévy-Rueff. André Maurois ( French: [mɔʁwa]; born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog; 26 July 1885 – 9 October 1967) was a French author.
André Maurois was a French biographer, novelist, and essayist, best known for biographies that maintain the narrative interest of novels. Born into a prosperous family of textile manufacturers, Maurois came under the influence of the French philosopher and teacher Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier).
André Maurois, pseudonyme d’Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog, né le 26 juillet 1885 à Elbeuf (Seine-Maritime) et mort le 9 octobre 1967 à Neuilly-sur-Seine , est un romancier, biographe, conteur et essayiste français.
1885–1967) French biographer, novelist, and essayist. In 1938 he was elected to the Académie Française. Maurois was born in Elbeuf, Normandy. His father owned a textiles factory, where Maurois worked for a time as director before turning to literature.
André Maurois was a pseudonym that became his legal name in 1947. During World War I he joined the French army and served as an interpreter and later a liaison officer to the British army. His first novel, Les silences du colonel Bramble, was a witty but socially realistic account of that experience.
André Maurois has 823 books on Goodreads with 127202 ratings. André Maurois’s most popular book is İklimler.
May 11, 2018 · Works of modernist biography include Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians (1918) and Queen Victoria (1921) and the numerous lives by Andr é Maurois (1885 – 1967). Changes in style also were reflected in biographers' adoption of a scientific outlook.
He was best known outside of France for his romantic biographies and other nonfiction, though his first work, "La dernière histoire du monde" ["The Final History of the World"] (1903) as by Émile Herzog, was sf – included much later in Premiers contes ["First Stories"] (coll 1935) as by Maurois, it was the first of his several Future Histories.
biographer Andre Maurois has forged a philosophy of biography. While grappling to achieve an ideal formula, he has developed and followed a group of flexible guidelines. From the very outset, he faced the necessity of defining the nature of biography as a literary genre. Maligned and praised for his initial attempt, Ariel ou la
Biographie d'ANDRÉ MAUROIS (1885-1967). Essayiste, romancier, historien, biographe, André Maurois fut avant tout un humaniste. Né en Normandie d'une famille juive qui avait quitté l'Alsace après la guerre de 1870, de son nom d'origine Émile Herzog, André Maurois dirigea l'entreprise...
