de Lautrec, Gabriel
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1867-1938) French author, cousin of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) whose short fiction, assembled in works like Poèmes en Prose (coll 1898), Les Histoires de Tom Joë (coll 1920) (see Club Story) and La Vengeance du portrait ovale (coll 1922; trans by Brian Stableford with excerpts from the previous two as The Vengeance of the Oval Portrait and Other Stories coll 2011); sometimes couched as dreams, de Lautrec's fiction often Satirizes a world centred in Paris through Near Future spoofs, though "Polar Terror" (1904 Mercure de France) hallucinates immurement in Antarctic ice, where explorers (Jules Verne is not being taken seriously here) build a City to survive in: the mood is apocalyptic. [JC]
Gabriel de Lautrec
born Béziers, Languedoc, France: 21 February 1867
died Paris: 25 July 1938
works
- Poèmes en Prose ["Prose Poems"] (Paris: L Vanie, 1898) [coll: binding unknown/]
- Les Histoires de Tom Joë ["Tales of Tom Joe"] (Paris: L'Édition Française Illustrée, 1920) [coll: binding unknown/]
- La Vengeance du portrait ovale (Paris: Les Éditions du Roseau, 1922) [binding unknown/]
- The Vengeance of the Oval Portrait and Other Stories (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2011) [coll: trans by Brian Stableford of the above plus added stories from Poèmes en Prose and Les Histoires de Tom Joë: introduction by Stableford: pb/Jean-Michel Ponzio]
- The Sacred Fire (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2019) [coll: trans by Brian Stableford of a short novel La Feu Sacré (1903) and 29 poems: pb/Mario Mercier]
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