- Raphaël Aubert
Raphaël Aubert (born 1953 in
Lausanne ,Switzerland ) is a Swiss writer and essayist.Biography
Early life and education
Raphaël Aubert was brought up in a family of artists. He studied in the Faculty of Arts and Theology at
University of Lausanne and in Paris.Career
His first book "Proche de l’argile ou la Remontée", a collection of poems, was published in 1975. He has since then published ten books including short stories and a novel titled, "La bataille de San Romano" ("The Battle of San Romano"), the action of which starts at the Louvre and questions the mysteries of
Paolo Uccello 's famous painting.As a journalist for
Radio Suisse Romande , he has travelled to Russia and various eastern countries, the Near East, the United States, and Asia.His essays include studies of
André Malraux andSalman Rushdie , the latter titled "L’affaire Rushdie" (The Rushdie Affair), which garnered interest as it was the first study in French on the Indo-British author. ["Ce petit bouquin objectif et documenté échappe aux lieux communs pour poser - fort et clair - des questions essentielles." "L'Evénement du Jeudi").] In "Le Paradoxe Balthus" ("The Balthus Paradox"), he develops an iconoclastic argument based onBalthus ’s famously controversial painting, "La leçon de guitare" (The Guitar Lesson).Aubert contributes to various reviews in Switzerland and in France, among which "Ecriture" and "Le Passe Muraille".
elected works
*"L'Absolu et la métamorphose", Genève, Labor et Fides, 1985 (ISBN 2-8309-0043-X)
*"L'Affaire Rushdie", Paris, Le Cerf, 1990 (ISBN 2-204-04193-9)
*"La Bataille de San Romano", Vevey, L'Aire bleue, 2006 (ISBN 2-88108-769-8)
*"Malraux ou la Lutte avec l'ange", Genève, Labor et Fides, 2001 (ISBN 2-8309-1026-5)
*"Le Paradoxe Balthus", Paris, La Différence, 2005 (ISBN 2-7291-1585-4)
*"Dieu est-il violent?" Paris, Bayard, 2008 (ISBN 978-2-227-47753-7)Notes and references
External links
* [http://dbserv1-bcu.unil.ch/persovd/autvdnom.php?Nom=Aubert Lausanne Library] Biographical notice
* [http://www.ladifference.fr/fiches/auteurs/aubert.html La Différence (French publisher)] Author file
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