Mauclair, Camille
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1872-1945) French poet, controversialist and author, notable in World War One for deploring German excesses and in World War Two for expressing anti-Semitic views in support of the Nazi occupation of France. Before the turn of the century, he had gained some fame as a Symbolist poet, and critical advocate of literary experimentation short of Modernism; he later attacked most twentieth-century avant-garde art because of its (as he periphrastically put it) Jewish roots. He is of some sf interest for the contents of The Virgin Orient (coll trans from various sources by Brian Stableford 2016). The title novella – L'Orient vierge: roman épique de l'An 2000 (1897; rev 1920) – is a Future War tale in which the confederated "Anarchist" forces of Europe defeat a Yellow Peril. Here and in the other stories assembled, a Symbolist intensity of image not surprisingly tends to stymie the narrative flow. [JC]
Camille Laurent Célestin Faust
born Paris: 29 November 1872
died Paris: 23 April 1945
works (highly selected)
- Couronne de clarté: roman féerique ["Crown of Clarity: A Fairy Novel"] (Paris: Paul Ollendorf, 1895) [binding unknown/]
- L'Orient vierge: roman épique de l'An 2000 (Paris: Paul Ollendorf, 1897) [binding unknown/]
- L'Orient vierge: roman épique de l'An 2000 (Paris: Paul Ollendorf, 1920) [rev of the above: binding unknown/]
- Le poison des pierreries ["The Poison of Precious Stones"] (Paris: A Ferroud, 1903) [binding unknown/]
- The Virgin Orient (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2020) [omni/coll: trans by Brian Stableford of the above three (using the 1897 version of L'Orient vierge) plus other material: pb/Michel Borderie]
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