Emmanuel Bove
Biography
Emmanuel Bove was born Emmanuel Bobovnikoff in 1898 in Paris, his father was a Jew who came from Russia and his mother was from Luxembourg. At the age of fourteen he decided he wanted to be a novelist. By this time his father was living with an English woman though not divorced from his wife. Bove finished his schooling in England and returned to France in 1916 where he struggled to make a living and and was even sent to prison for a month as vagabond. After World War 1 he married and settled in Vienna , where he wrote several popular novels under the name Jean Vallois. He returned to Paris and worked as a journalist and translator. Colette was impressed by one of his stories and helped him publish Mes amis My Friends), his first and best-known novel. He went on to have a successful career as a novelist. Hewas mobilised as a worker during World War II and managed to get to Algiers in 1942, where he wrote his final three novels. Weakened by malaria and pleurisy he died of heart failure in 1945. His daughter Nora de Meyenbourg (link in French) did much to restore his reputation which faded considerably after the war. Peter Handke translated him into German.
Books about Emmanuel Bove
Raymond Cousse et Jean-Luc Bitton: Emmanuel Bove : La Vie comme une ombre French)
Other sites
Emmanuel Bove
Emmanuel Bove
The Essential Detail (profile of Bove)
Emmanuel Bove – Misery Seeking Company
Emmanuel Bove (in French)
Emmanuel Bove (in French)
Emmanuel Bove (in French)
Bibliography
1924 Mes amis My Friends) (novel)
1925 Visite d’un soir (novella)
1926 Le Crime d’une nuit (novella)
1927 Armand (Armand ) (novel)
1927 Bécon-les-Bruyères (novel)
1927 La Coalition (novel)
1927 Un Soir chez Blutel (novel)
1928 Henri Duchemin et ses ombres (Henri Duchemin and His Shadows) (novel)
1928 La Mort de Dinah (novel)
1928 Une fugue (novella)
1928 Un père et sa fille, (novel)
1928 Coeurs et Visages (novel)
1928 L’Amour de Pierre Neuhart (novel)
1928 Une illusion (novella)
1929 Petits contes (stories)
1930 Monsieur Thorpe & autres nouvelles (stories)
1931 Journal – écrit en hiver (Winter’s Journal) (novel)
1932 Un Raskolnikoff ( Raskolnikoff) (novella)
1932 Un célibataire (novel)
1933 Le Meurtre de Suzy Pommier (The Murder of Suzy Pommier) (novel)
1933 Un suicide (novel) – unfinished
1934 Le Beau-fils (The Stepson) (novel)
1935 Le Pressentiment, (novel)
1937 Adieu Fombonne
1939 La Dernière Nuit (novel)
1945 Le Piège (Quicksand) (novel)
1945 Départ dans la nuit ( Night Departure) (novel)
1946 Non-lieu (No Place)
1985 Un homme qui savait (A Man Who Knows) (novel)
1987 Mémoires d’un homme singulier ( Singular Man)(novel)
1999 Un caractère de femme (novel)
2013 Arrestations célèbres (articles)
2017 Le remord : contes, nouvelles, textes et propos (stories)
2017 Contes inédits de Paris-soir (stories)