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Henry de Montherlant
Biography
Henry de Montherlant was born in Paris in 1895, to an old-established French family. He didn’t do particularly well at his studies, failing his first year of law. His father died in 1914, his mother in 1915 and he lived with his grandmother till her death in 1923. After serving in the auxiliary service, he was called up for active duty and was seriously wounded. His first work was rejected by eleven publishers before being published in 1920. After his grandmother’s death, he travelled – Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Spain (where he took an interest in bull-fighting). He took an anti-colonialist position but his anti-colonialist novel was not published till much later. He tried to join up during the Second World War but a second pulmonary congestion prevented him from doing so. He became a war journalist and was slightly wounded. He started to write plays and several were performed during the War. Most of his post-war work was for the theatre and he did not publish another novel till 1963. When he started to go blind, he took his own life in 1972.
Books about Henry de Montherlant
Lucille Becker: Henry de Montherlant – A Critical Biography
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Bibliography
1920 La relève du matin
1922 Le Songe (The Dream)
1924 Les Olympiques
1924 Chant funèbre pour les morts de Verdun
1926 Les Bestiaires (The Bullfighters, later: The Matador)
1927 Lettre sur le serviteur chétié
1927 Aux fontaines du désir
1928 Un désir frustré mime l’amour
1928 Pour le délassement de l’auteur
1928 Trois images de l’Espagne
1928 Earinus
1929 Hispano-moresque
1929 L’Exil
1929 Le Génie et les fumisteries du Divin
1929 Sous les drapeaux morts
1929 La petite Infante de Castille
1930 Pour une Vierge noire
1932 Mors et vita
1933 Au petit mutilé
1933 Histoire naturelle imaginaire
1934 Les Célibataires (UK: Lament for the Death of an Upper Class, US: Perish in Their Pride; later editions: The Bachelors)
1934 Encore un instant de bonheur
1935 Il y a encore des paradis
1935 Service inutile
1936 Pasiphaé
1936 Les jeunes filles (The Girls)
1936 Pitié pour les femmes (Pity for Women)
1937 Le démon du Bien (The Demon of Good; later Costals)
1938 L’équinoxe de septembre
1939 Les Lépreuses (The Lepers; later The Hippogriff)
1940 Paysage des Olympiques
1941 Le solstice de juin
1942 Sur les femmes
1942 Les nouvelles chevaleries
1942 La reine morte
1944 Fils de personne
1944 Fils des autres
1944 Croire aux âmes
1944 Un incompris
1944 Notes de la guerre sèche
1944 D’aujourd’hui et de toujours
1945 Un voyageur solitaire est un diable
1946 La vie amoureuse de Monsieur de Guiscart
1946 Malatesta
1946 La déesse Cypris
1947 Le Maître de Santiago (The Master of Santiago)
1947 L’éventail de fer
1947 Carnets XXIX à XXXV
1948 Carnets XLII à XLIII
1949 Demain il fera jour
1949 Saint-Simon
1949 L’étoile du soir
1950 Celles qu’on prend dans ses bras
1950 Notes sur mon théâtre
1950 Coups de soleil
1951 Les cueilleuses de branches
1951 La ville dont le prince est un enfant (The Fire that Consumes)
1951 L’infini est du côté de Malatesta (Malatesta)
1952 Le fichier parisien
1952 Le Plaisir et la Peur
1952 España sagrada
1953 Textes sous une Occupation
1954 L’histoire d’amour de”La Rose de Sable” (Desert Love)
1954 Port-Royal
1955 Carnet XXII à XXVIII
1956 Don Juan (Don Juan)
1956 Carnets 1930-1944 1958
1956 Brocéliande 1957
1960 Le cardinal d’Espagne
1960 Selected Essays
1963 Le Chaos et la Nuit (Chaos and Night)
1965 La guerre civile (Theatre of War)
1966 Va jouer avec cette poussière
1969 Les Garçons (The Boys)
1970 Le treizième César
1971 Un assassin est mon maître [A Murderer Is My Master]
1972 La marée du soir
1972 La Tragédie sans masque
1986 Moustique
1995 Essais critiques
1995 Quelques mois de féerie, quelques jours de galère (Inédits nord-africains 1926-1940)
2001 Garder tout en composant tout (1924-1972), Carnets inédits, derniers carnets