Arnyvelde, André
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of French journalist, playwright and author André Lévy (1881-1942), his nom de plume being an anagram; in active service during World War One, deported as a Jew to a concentration camp and murdered during World War Two. His works of interest as examples of early twentieth century Fantastika convey their visions of Utopia through an unusually intimate diction. Le Roi du Galande ["The King of Galande"] (1910) is a Fantastic Voyage whose protagonist, after leaving his kingdom in the mountains, finds out what the world is like, and L'Arche ["The Ark"] (1920) constructs a kind of Alternate World which allows its protagonist to survive combat during the Great War; both novels have been translated as The Ark (omni trans Brian Stableford 2015). The injured protagonist of Le Bacchus Mutilé ["The Mutilated Bacchus"] (1922) creates a mountain Utopia which fails him, and Demande un Homme, ou L'Étrange Tournoi d'Amour (1924) places its hero in a formal, fantasticated competition for the love of a woman; both novels have been translated as The Mutilated Bacchus (omni trans Brian Stableford 2015). [JC]
André Lévy
born Paris: 29 November 1881
died Camp de Concentration de Royallieu, near Compiègne, Oise: 2 February 1942
works
- Le Roi du Galande ["The King of Galande"] (Paris: Monde Illustré, 1910) [binding unknown/]
- L'Arche ["The Ark"] (Sté Mutuelle, 1920) [binding unknown/]
- The Ark (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2015) [omni: trans by Brian Stableford of the above two: pb/Jean-Félix Lyon]
- Le Bacchus Mutilé ["The Mutilated Bacchus"] (Paris: Albin Michel, 1922) [binding unknown/]
- On Demande un Homme, ou L'Étrange Tournoi d'Amour ["They Need Men; Or, Love's Strange Journey"] (Paris: Flammarion, 1924) [binding unknown/]
- The Mutilated Bacchus (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2015) [omni: trans by Brian Stableford of the above two: pb/Jean-Félix Lyon]
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