Biography
Eugene Xu is a French writer of the 19th century, the author of novels of social and psychological orientation. He worked in the field of mass literature and is considered the founder of the criminal-sensational genre.Childhood and youth
The writer was born on January 26, 1804 in Paris. His real name is Marie Joseph Eugene. In the future, it was reduced to create a literary pseudonym.
Marie Joseph appeared in the family of a physician. The father of the future writer passed the career path from the ordinary doctor to the main guardian guard of the emperor. He personally was friends with Napoleon Bonaparte, later became the royal doctor. The godfish became members of the State Worker family: the future empress Josephine and the coming prince Evgeny Bogarne.
The boy is spoiled. He was laid by idleness, she studied at home until 11 years old. After the young man was given to the elite educational institution - the College de Bourbon, where he received an excellent education. My father dreamed that the Son continues his business and also became a doctor. But during his studies, he led a cheerful lifestyle: Kutil, entertained and acquired a large number of noble friends.
Rumors about the adventures of Marie Joseph quickly reached the Father. Most of all he was glad with a family wine cellar. The monarchs were often given by Surrend, as a sign of gratitude for the impeccable work of expensive wines. In the future, they were cut at the table during important events. But for some reason guests did not admire elite drinks. Once, Jean-Bathist caught his son and his friends in the cellar for drinking unique wine and replacing it cheap. This turned the bowl of patience of the eminenthety, and cheerful hood was expelled by his father from Paris.
In the future, the punishment repeated twice. It was assumed that the expulsion would help to come to a young man and take up the mind. As a result, Marie Joseph was sent as a military doctor to maritime fighting expeditions.
Personal life
In his youth, Eugene was beautiful, rich and enjoyed success in women. After the death of the Father in 1830, rumors went that Sy Jr. has a relationship immediately with three mistresses, but this did not correspond to reality.
Then his beloved was bright and incredibly attractive Kurtisanka Olympia Peeldee. She had already had a connection with the writer Onor de Balzac, whose talent appreciated highly, but I chose Ezhena. The idyll of Olympia and Xi lasted for a short time: a woman left him to the Italian composer Joakkino Rossini.
There is almost nothing to know about the further personal life of the writer and loud novels. The last enthusiasm was the cousin of Napoleon III Marie de Solm.
Books
In 1825, Eugene begins to try forces in the literature. At first he is engaged in this from boredom to kill time. Together with friends, a young man is working on creating several plays.In 1830 he dies Si-Senior and leaves the son a million state. Eugene settles in Paris and leads the life of a secular dandy. The young man squeaks money, visits numerous salons and is seriously immersed in literary creativity.
After plays, evigenous appeals to the novels, and then to the naval novels. Still, because in combat expeditions, he acquired invaluable experience, which is ready to share with the reader. In the works of this period, the influence of the Phoenimor Cooper is visible. From under the pen, the stories are imbued with romanticism and the spirit of adventure: "Crank-pirate" (1829), "Gypsy" (1830), "Atar Gul" (1831), "Salamandra" (1832), "Koathan Watchtower" (1833).
Eugene quickly becomes a fashionable writer and the idol of golden youth. Entering the image of a pessimist disappointed in the life, he endlessly by the audience: organizes orgies with smoking of opium, builds a cynic and snob from himself, arranges shocking antics.
Widow, after seeing the realities of the highest light, Eugene makes conclusions for aristocrats. In the 1830s, the writer addresses social prose and brutal satire to the nobility. All this makes it even more popular. He and the first enemies appear. Offended by literary bags of bourgeois arrange a plot against the writer, which leads him to ruin.
Eugene appeals to historical topics. In his works "Latreomon" (1837), "Marquis de Director" (1839), "Jean Cavalle" (1840) gothic features appear. From historical orientation, the writer moves to household and creates so-called salon, light creations: "Artur" (1838), "Black Hill" (1842), "Teresa Duneye" (1842), Paula Monty (1842). Roman "Matilda" (1841) acquired such popularity that he became known even in Russia. Its translation to Russian was planned to do Fedor Dostoevsky.
All this is not the basic works of the writer, but preparatory. The real glory came to Xu after the creation of socially adventurous novels in the 1840s. In the 1841th, Eugene meets a charismatic workforce. He was a socialist and an excellent speaker. The young man fascinated the writer with his ideas and forced him to look at the workers in other eyes.
Suits arises to protect the simple people and accuses all his unhappiness aristocracy. At this time, the famous novels of the writer "Paris Secrets" (1842-1843) are published (1842-1843), "Eternal Jam" (1844-1845) and "Mystery of the People" (1849-1857). The works were written in the genre of Faketon and were printed in the newspapers of that time. Readers were waiting for every next number with interest with interest. This increased the circulation of newspapers, which published Xu, 20 times.
Eugene with delight supported the revolution of 1848 and seriously interested in politics. He saw in her the need, as he wrote in the "secrets of the people." As a result, the work was forbidden, and the writer was accused of calling for the overthrow of power, promoting violence and socialist ideas.
Death
After the coup in 1851 meters, it was deleted to a voluntary reference beyond France. In Savoy, he also did not sit idle. In 1857, a man died suddenly with unexplained circumstances. The autopsy was not produced - the cause of death is not installed.
Doctor Francois Vennysan Spasil said that Xu poisoned. In 1863, a friend of the writer anonymously published a brochure, which argued that Ezhen was killed by the orders of Napoleon III. The emperor has taken his cousin and the desperate adventurer Marie de Solms to fall in love with an unfortunate writer. This woman succeeded. And when it was in its full power, she poisoned him.
After the death of Ezhena Marie returned to France and received a generous remuneration from Napoleon III.
Quotes and aphorisms
- "There is nothing more useful for the body than cold egoism; A man retains youth for a long time with this piece of ice in the chest. "
- "The Human Soul is a book for seven seals."
- "Society thinks about Kare and when it does not care about preventing evil."
- "For an empty vanity, any flattery is good."
- "Revenge is a dish that is worth filing cold."
Bibliography
- 1829 - "Crank-Pirate"
- 1830 - "Gypsy"
- 1831 - "Atar Gul"
- 1832 - "Salamandra"
- 1833 - "Koathan Watchtower"
- 1837 - "Latreomon"
- 1838 - "Artur"
- 1840 - Jean Cavalle
- 1841 - Matilda
- 1842 - "Damn Hill"
- 1842 - "Teresa Duneye"
- 1842 - "Paula Monty"
- 1842-1843 - "Paris Secrets"
- 1844-1845 - "Agasfer, or eternal liquid"
- 1849-1867 - "Mystery of the People"