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French writer
Henry Bataille
Henry Bataille 1911
Born Félix-Henri Bataille
(1872-04-04 ) 4 April 1872Died 2 March 1922(1922-03-02) (aged 49) Known for French dramatist, poet.
Félix-Henri "Henry" Bataille (4 April 1872, in
Nîmes – 2 March 1922, in
Rueil-Malmaison
[1] ) was a French dramatist and poet. His works were popular between 1900 and the start of World War I.
Bataille's parents died when he was young.
[2] He attended the
École des Beaux-Arts and
Académie Julian
[3] to study painting, but started writing when he was 14. Henry wrote plays and poems, but after the success of his second play, La Lépreuse , he became a playwright exclusively. Bataille's early works explored the effects of passion on human motivation and how stifling the social conventions of the times could be. For example, Maman Colibri , is about a middle-aged woman's affair with a younger man. Later, Bataille would gravitate towards the theatre of ideas and social drama.
Bataille was also a theorist of subconscious motivation. While he did not use his theories in most of his own works, he influenced later playwrights such as
Jean-Jacques Bernard and the "school of silence".
Works
La Belle au bois dormant , 1894
La Chambre blanche (poetry), 1895
La Lépreuse , 1896
L'Enchantement , 1900
Le Masque , 1902
Maman Colibri (Mother Colibri) , 1904
La Marche nupitale , 1905
Poliche , 1906
La Femme nue , 1908
Le Scandale , 1909
La Vierge folle (The Foolish Virgin) , 1910
L'Enfant de l'amour , 1911
Le Phalène , 1913
L'Amazone , 1916
La divine tragédie (poetry), 1917
L'Animateur , 1920
L'Homme à la rose , 1920
La Tendresse , 1921
La Possession , 1921
La Chair humaine (Human Flesh) , 1922
Filmography
The Naked Truth , directed by
Carmine Gallone (Italy, 1914, based on the play La Femme nue )
The Wedding March , directed by
Carmine Gallone (Italy, 1915, based on the play La Marche nupitale )
La falena , directed by
Carmine Gallone (Italy, 1916, based on the play Le Phalène )
L'Enfant de l'amour , directed by
Emilio Ghione (Italy, 1916, based on the play L'Enfant de l'amour )
Maman Colibri , directed by Alfredo De Antoni (Italy, 1918, based on the play Maman Colibri )
Le Scandale , directed by
Jacques de Baroncelli (France, 1918, based on the play Le Scandale )
Incantesimo , directed by Ugo Gracci (Italy, 1919, based on the play L'Enchantement )
La vergine folle , directed by
Gennaro Righelli (Italy, 1920, based on the play La Vierge folle )
La maschera , directed by
Ivo Illuminati (Italy, 1921, based on the play Le Masque )
The Nude Woman , directed by
Roberto Roberti (Italy, 1922, based on the play La Femme nue )
The Scandal , directed by
Arthur Rooke (UK, 1923, based on the play Le Scandale )
The Nude Woman , directed by
Léonce Perret (France, 1926, based on the play La Femme nue )
La Vierge folle , directed by
Luitz-Morat (France, 1929, based on the play La Vierge folle )
The Wedding March , directed by
André Hugon (France, 1929, based on the play La Marche nupitale )
La Possession , directed by
Léonce Perret (France, 1929, based on the play La Possession )
Der Narr seiner Liebe , directed by
Olga Chekhova (Germany, 1929, based on the play Poliche )
Maman Colibri , directed by
Julien Duvivier (France, 1929, based on the play Maman Colibri )
L'Enfant de l'amour , directed by
Marcel L'Herbier (France, 1930, based on the play L'Enfant de l'amour )
La Tendresse , directed by
André Hugon (France, 1930, based on the play La Tendresse )
Zärtlichkeit , directed by Richard Löwenbein (Germany, 1930, based on the play La Tendresse )
The Nude Woman , directed by
Jean-Paul Paulin (France, 1932, based on the play La Femme nue )
Le Scandale , directed by
Marcel L'Herbier (France, 1934, based on the play Le Scandale )
Poliche , directed by
Abel Gance (France, 1934, based on the play Poliche )
The Private Life of Don Juan , directed by
Alexander Korda (UK, 1934, based on the play L'Homme à la rose )
La Marche nupitale , directed by
Mario Bonnard (France, 1935, based on the play La Marche nupitale )
Maman Colibri , directed by
Jean Dréville (France, 1937, based on the play Maman Colibri )
Second Youth , directed by
Michał Waszyński (Poland, 1938, based on the play Maman Colibri )
La Vierge folle , directed by
Henri Diamant-Berger (France, 1938, based on the play La Vierge folle )
Imprudencia , directed by
Julián Soler (Mexico, 1944, based on the play Le Scandale )
L'Enfant de l'amour , directed by
Jean Stelli (France, 1944, based on the play L'Enfant de l'amour )
La Femme nue , directed by
André Berthomieu (France, 1949, based on the play La Femme nue )
Notes
References
"Bataille, (Félix) Henri". Retrieved 17 April 2009 from Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database, EBSCOhost
"Bataille, Félix Henry".
Encyclopedia Americana . Grolier Online
[1]
Buss, Robin. "Baitaille, Henry". Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia . 2009. Grolier Online
[2]
"Henry Bataille". In
Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 17 April 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online
[3]
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