Max Buchon
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Portrait of Max Buchon by Gustave Courbet (1855)
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| Born | Joseph-Maximilien Buchon 8 May 1818 Salins, Jura |
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| Occupation | Novelist, translator, political journalist |
| Language | French |
Joseph-Maximilien Buchon (8 May 1818 – 14 December 1869), was a French poet, novelist and translator.
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Biography
Max Buchon was born in Salins, Jura, the son of a military officer. He studied in Switzerland, at the Collège Saint-Michel in Fribourg, from 1834 to 1837. Back in Salins, he devoted himself to writing, while remaining linked to Switzerland where he visited several times and which he never ceased to use in his novels.
He was a follower of Fourierism and one of the first representatives of socialism. Between 1848 and 1851, Buchon worked in Salins as editor of the newspaper Rouge. He was second deputy mayor of Salins in 1848. After Louis-Napoleon's coup d'état, he was arrested as a republican and deported to Switzerland, first to Fribourg, then to Bern. He asked for a pardon in April 1856 and obtained it following the interventions of Senator Victor Tourangin.
His childhood friend Gustave Courbet placed him in his monumental painting of 1855, The Painter's Studio, and made a portrait of him (today at the Musée Jenisch of Vevey).
Buchon also translated into French works by Jeremias Gotthelf, whom he made known in France.[1][2] At the suggestion of his friend Champfleury, he publishes a study on realism in L'Indépendant, a newspaper in Neuchâtel.
In his Scènes de la vie comtoise (Scenes of Comtoise Life),[3] he describes the living conditions of the Franco-Comtoise population of the 19th century, restoring the work and daily life of the little people (winegrowers, lumberjacks, cheese merchants, typographers...) in a language that is both tasty and authentic, and that testifies to a deep love of the province, its landscapes and its people.[4]
Max Buchon died in Salins.
Works
Poetry
- Essais poétiques (1839; illustrated by Gustave Courbet)
- Le Val d'Héry (1848)
- Poésies franc-comtoises, tableaux domestiques et champêtres (1862; 1868)
Novels
- Le Gouffre gourmand (1854; published in the Revue des deux Mondes)
- Le Fils de l'ex-maire (1857)
- Le Matachin (1858)
Miscellania
- Salins-les-Bains, ses eaux minérales et ses environs (1862)
- Noëls et chants populaires de la Franche-Comté (1863)
- Les Fromageries franc-comtoises (1866)
Translations
- Heinrich Heine, Theodor Körner and Ludwig Uhland, Poésies allemandes (1846)
- Berthold Auerbach and Johann Peter Hebel, Scènes villageoises de la Forêt-Noire (1853)
- Jeremias Gotthelf, Nouvelles bernoises (1854)
- Jeremias Gotthelf, Les joies et les souffrances d’un maître d’école (1859)
- Johann Peter Hebel, Poésies complètes (1863)
- Johann Peter Hebel, Poésies allémaniques (1864)
- Jeremias Gotthelf, L'Âme et l'argent (1869)
- Brothers Grimm, Contes populaires de l'Allemagne, recueillis par les frères Grimm (n/d)
Notes
- ↑ Waidson, H. M. (1948). "Jeremias Gotthelf's Reception in Britain and America," The Modern Language Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 2, pp. 223–38.
- ↑ Andrews, John S. (1956). "The Reception of Gotthelf in British and American Nineteenth-Century Periodicals," The Modern Language Review, Vol. LI, No. 4, pp. 543–54.
- ↑ A trilogy of novels composed in Switzerland from 1851 to 1856: it was gathered in 1858 under the title Scenes of the Comtoise Life.
- ↑ Vernus, Michel (2004). "Préface." In: Scènes de la Vie Comtoise. Sainte-Croix: Presses du Belvédère.
References
- Amiel, J. Henri (1942). "Une Précurseur du Réalisme: Max Buchon," Modern Language Quarterly, Vol. III, No. 3, pp. 379–90.
- Clark, T. J. (1969). "A Bourgeois Dance of Death: Max Buchon on Courbet," Burlington Magazine, Vol. CXI, pp. 208–12, 286–90.
- Joliot, Janine (1981). "Les Scènes de la Vie Franc-comtoise du Romancier Max Buchon," Mémoires de la Société d'Émulation du Doubs, No 23, pp. 23–44.
- Larkin, Oliver (1939). "Courbet and His Contemporaries, 1848-1867," Science & Society, Vol. III, No. 1, pp. 42–63.
- Lombez, Christine (2012). "Traducteurs et Traductions de la Poésie Allemande en Français au XIXe Siècle." In: Interculturalité et Transfert. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot GmbH, pp. 35–44.
External links
- Works by Max Buchon at Gallica
- Works by Max Buchon at JSTOR
- Entre les rives politiques et esthétiques, Max Buchon (1818-1869)
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