Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Les Épis mûrs by Lucien Rebatet Lucien Rebatet. Lucien Rebatet (15 November 1903 – 24 August 1972) was a French author, journalist, and intellectual. He is known as an exponent of fascism and virulent antisemite but also as the author of Les Deux étendards , regarded by some as one of the greatest novels of the post-war era. Biography. Early life. Rebatet was born and died in Moras-en-Valloire, Drôme. As a young man, Rebatet was educated in Saint-Chamond, Loire. From 1923 to 1927 he studied at the Sorbonne, after which he became an insurance agent. It was only in 1929 that he began his career as a writer, becoming a music and film critic (the latter under the pseudonym François Vinneuil ) for the far right integralist Action Française newspaper. In 1932 Rebatet became a contributor to the right-wing newspaper Je suis partout , for which he wrote until the Allied liberation in 1944. In 1938 he became head of information for Action Française and worked closely with the movement's founder, Charles Maurras. Long before the outbreak of war between France and Nazi Germany, Rebatet expressed sympathy for National Socialism, notably in his articles for Je suis partout ("I Am Everywhere"), in which he accused Jews of fomenting a war to topple Adolf Hitler’s régime. In 1940 he was drafted into the French Army and, although he served, openly hoped for a " short and disastrous war for France ". Collaboration. After the fall of France he became a radio reporter for the Vichy government. He soon left this post, as well as Action Française, to join Jacques Doriot's newspaper Cri Du Peuple , and to continue his writings for Je suis partout . In 1942 Rebatet published a lengthy pamphlet entitled Les Décombres ("The Ruins"), in which he traced the forces he believed to have led France to its fall. He firmly accused Third Republic politicians and its military leadership, as well as French Jews - who he claimed were the prime cause of France's political and military woes. Les Décombres is the clearest expression of Rebatet's fascism, as well as his most virulently antisemitic work. The same year, he began writing Les Deux étendards ("The Two Standards"), his first novel. In August 1944 Rebatet fled France for Germany, travelling to the Sigmaringen enclave (place of refuge for Vichy authorities as well as the more famous French writer, Céline). It was in Sigmaringen that Rebatet completed Les Deux étendards , which would be published in 1952 by Gallimard. He was arrested in Austria in 1945. After the war. Rebatet was sent back to France and, in 1946, received a death sentence, which was commuted to forced labor the next year. Released from prison in 1952, he returned to journalism in 1953, becoming the director of the literary section of Dimanche Matin . In 1954, Gallimard published Rebatet's second novel, Les Epis Mûrs ("The Ripe Grains"). His final work was a history of music which he began writing in 1965, and which was published by Laffont in 1969. Although Rebatet continued to proclaim his adherence to fascism until his death, his antisemitism became less pronounced after the war, showing even admiration for the state of Israel. Despite his controversial biography, there are those, such as George Steiner, who claim that Lucien Rebatet was a great writer, and that Les Deux étendards in particular deserves to be considered an important novel in French literary history. Lucien Rebatet. Lucien Rebatet (born November 15, 1903 in Moras-en-Valloire , Département Drôme , † August 24, 1972 ibid) was a French anti-Semitic journalist and writer. contents. Live and act. Rebatet was the son of the notary Pierre Rebatet and his wife Jeanne Tampucchi; his maternal grandfather was Hippolyte Tampucci . He attended the College of the Marist Fathers in Saint-Chamond ( Loire department ) and, after a short stay at the University of Lyon, studied at the University of Paris between 1923 and 1927 . He then found employment with an insurance company. In 1929 he gave up his profession and became a writer. Under the pseudonym "François Vinteuil" (later "François Vinneuil") he wrote music and film reviews for the magazine Action Française . With effect from April 30, 1932, his friend Pierre Gaxotte hired him for his magazine Je suis partout . On September 14, 1933, Rebatet married Veronique Popovici in Galați ( Romania ). Rebatet wrote for Gaxotte's Journal until Operation Overlord in 1944. At the same time, Rebatet acted as spokesman for Action Française from 1938 and therefore worked very closely with Charles Maurras . In January 1940 he was drafted into the army, although he at that time a pamphlet was published in which he the Nazis glorified and wished that France would lose the war. He had already praised Adolf Hitler in various articles and z. B. in “Je suis partout” accused the Jews of having started the war in order to overthrow the Führer. After the German conquest of France , Rebatet became a radio reporter for the Vichy regime at Ici la France . But after a short time he resigned and wrote for Jacques Doriot's magazine Cri du peuple . His pamphlet Les Décombres had a circulation of 65,000 copies in 1942 thanks to the generous paper allocation from the German censor Gerhard Heller . After the Allied invasion Rebatet fled in August 1944 to Sigmaringen to Louis-Ferdinand Céline , who is among the leaders of the Vichy regime to Sigmaringen Castle had brought to safety. Rebatet continued to write his novels there and fled to Austria at the end of the war . There he was arrested on May 8, 1945 in Feldkirch . He was brought to France and sentenced to death in 1946; the following year his death sentence was overturned. Rebatet was released from prison on July 16, 1952, and a year later he was able to work as a journalist again. In 1954 he was entrusted with the feature section of Dimanche Matin . In prison he had written the highly acclaimed novel Les deux étendards when it appeared in 1952 . Rebatet was enthusiastic about fascism until the end of his life and his articles were known for their anti-Semitism . In the presidential elections against Charles de Gaulle on December 5 and 1965, respectively, Rebatet first supported Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour and in the second ballot François Mitterrand . Lucien Rebatet died on August 24, 1972 in his hometown at the age of 68 and was finally buried there. The literary scholar George Steiner strictly separated Rebatet's biography from his work and praised Rebatet as a great writer, whose novel Les deux étendards he counts as one of the "secret masterpieces of our time". The extensive novel is characterized by an infallible humanity, filled to the brim with music, with love, with empathy for pain. Steiner particularly pointed out the inexplicable connection between the "despicable, twisted Rebatet and the miracle of his prose". Trivia. Patrick Modiano's first novel La Place de l'Étoile , completed in 1967, begins with an anti-Semitic abusiveness by a journalist named Léon Rabatête in a special issue of Ici la France in Vichy France: . How much longer do we have to keep washing our hands because of the Jewish rabble ? Jonathan Littell mentions Lucien Rebatet in his factual novel Die Wohlgesinnten (Les Bienveillants) and describes him as a friend of his protagonist Maximilian Aue. Lucien Rebatet. Lucien Rebatet was a French writer, journalist and intellectual. He is known as the promoter of fascism and virulent antisemite, but also as the author of Les etendards Des, is considered as one of the greatest novels in the postwar period. 1.1. Biography. Early life. (Ранняя жизнь) Rebatet was born and died in the Moras-EN-Valloire, Drôme. As a young man, Rebatet was educated in Saint-Chamond, Loire. From 1923 to 1927 he studied at the Sorbonne, after which he became an insurance agent. It was only in 1929 that he began his career as a writer, becoming a music and film critic of the latter under the pseudonym françois Vinneuil on the right integralist newspaper "action française". In 1932 Rebatet became a member of right-wing Newspapers Im everywhere, for which he wrote until the liberation by the allies in 1944. In 1938 he became head of information for the "action française" and worked closely with the founder, Charles Maurras. Long before the war between France and Nazi Germany, Rebatet expressed sympathy for national socialism, especially in its articles, I everywhere "Im everywhere" in which he accused Jews of fomenting war to overthrow the regime of Adolf Hitler. In 1940 he was drafted into the French army and, although he served, was openly hoping for a short and disastrous war for France ". 1.2. Biography. Cooperation. (Сотрудничества) After the fall of France he became a radio reporter for the Vichy government. He soon left this post, as well as the "action française" to join the newspaper Jacques Doriots Cree Du Pepl and to continue his writings for I am everywhere. In 1942, Rebatet published a lengthy pamphlet entitled Les Decombres "ruins", in which he traced the forces he believed had led France to its decline. He strongly accused the Third Republic politicians and military leadership, as well as French Jews who, he claimed, was the main reason for Franciss political and military troubles. Les Decombres is a vivid expression Rebatets fascism, as well as his most virulently anti-Semitic work. In the same year he began to write Les-Deux etendards "two standards", his first novel. In August 1944, Rebatet fled France to Germany, travelling to Sigmaringen enclave of refuge for Vichy authorities, as well as the famous French writer Celine.