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Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbusse was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a neo-Naturalist novelist; in 1916, he published Under Fire, a novel about World War I based on his experience which is described as one of the earliest works of the Lost Generation movement or as the work which started it…
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culture · French novelist and writer (1873–1935) · writer · journalist · screenwriter · biographer · novelist · politician · painter · poet · historian · pacifist · also Henri Barbusse, Barbusse
Born 17 May 1873 · Died 30 August 1935 · Q18404
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Le Progrès: Saint-Étienne Henri Barbusse, soldat de la paix : une exposition à découvrir à l’hôtel de ville
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2023· 1 entry
Fabula: Henri Barbusse, Romain Rolland, L’Esprit et le Feu Correspondance (1917-1935), (éd. Philippe Baudorre)
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2020· 1 entry
MidiLibre: Sète : Henri Barbusse ce combattant de 14 qui n'a pas été panthéonisé avec Maurice Genevoix
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2018· 1 entry
L'Humanité: henri barbusse
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2016· 3 entries
L'Humanité: Pour la mémoire d’Henri Barbusse
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La Voix du Nord: Un 11 Novembre autour d’Henri Barbusse
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Ouest-France: Henri Barbusse, la guerre et la paix...
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2015· 1 entry
ActuaLitté: Henri Barbusse, grand oublié de la République
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2014· 2 entries
Fabula: Henri Barbusse et Le Feu
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Le Figaro: Le feu d'Henri Barbusse (1916)
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1935· 5 entries
Died 1935-08-30.
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“The dead do not survive except upon earth. Wherever there are revolutionaries, there is Lenin. But one may also say that it is in Stalin more than anyone else that the thoughts and words of Lenin are to be found. He is the Lenin of today.”
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Career landmark: funeral.
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And didn't see the events that followed, like the Moscow trials and the Nazi-Soviet pact
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As Staline: Un monde nouveau vu à travers un homme (Stalin: A New World Seen Through the Man)
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1934· 1 entry
Barbusse sent Egon Kisch to Australia to represent the International Movement Against War and Fascism as part of his work for the Comintern
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1932· 1 entry
Barbusse agreed to write a biography of Stalin
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1930· 1 entry
Published a book Russie, an account of year-long living in the Soviet Union which contained flattering references to Stalin
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1929· 1 entry
Barbusse, les Soviets et la Géorgie, with a sympathetic preface by Karl Kautsky
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1928· 1 entry
Career landmark: director (1928–1935).
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1927· 1 entry
Barbusse participated in the Congress of Friends of the Soviet Union in Moscow
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1926· 1 entry
Career landmark: literary editor (1926).
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1925· 1 entry
Barbusse published Chains, showing history as the unbroken chain of suffering of people and their struggle for freedom and justice
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1923· 1 entry
And later travelled back to the Soviet Union
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1921· 1 entry
Wrote an article titled "Esperantista Laboristo" ("Esperantist worker") for Esperanto journal
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1916· 3 entries
Awarded Prix Goncourt for Under Fire (1916).
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Published Under Fire, a novel about World War I based on his experience which is described as one of the earliest works of the Lost Generation movement or as the work which started it; the novel had a major impact on
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Which was based on his experiences during World War I
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1914· 2 entries
Volunteered for wartime service and was awarded the Croix de guerre; during the war, he was influenced by the Communists and came to the belief that a Revolution against the imperialist governments would be the only q
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At age 41, he enlisted in the French Army and served on the Western front during World War I
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1908· 2 entries
Barbusse wrote his first novel Hell (L'Enfer), in which he described the life of a young Parisian who lives in a boarding house and spies through a hole in his wall on the other boarders and sees birth, death, adultery a
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“Enfer), in which he described the life of a young Parisian who lives in a boarding house and spies through a hole in his wall on the other boarders and sees birth, death, adultery and lesbianism. The novel produced controversy because of breaking taboos and crossing conventional moral boundaries of the time; this work is identified as”
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1895· 1 entry
Published a poetry collection Mourners (Pleureuses), which is sometimes identified as "neo-Symbolist"
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1873· 1 entry
Born 1873-05-17.
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