Henry Bauchau

Henry Bauchau (22 January 1913 – 21 September 2012) was a Belgian psychoanalyst, lawyer, and author of French prose and poetry.

Biography

Henry Bauchau was born in Mechelen, Belgium on 22 January 1913. He became a trial lawyer in Brussels in 1936 and was a member of the Belgian Resistance in the Ardennes during World War II.

He was married to Mary Kozyrev; their son is the actor Patrick Bauchau. They lived for a time in Gstaad, Switzerland.

Bauchau died in Paris, France on 21 September 2012, aged 99.

Publishing

From 1945 to 1951 he worked in publishing. In 1946, he moved to Paris. He was a friend of Albert Camus, André Gide, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida.

Awards

• 1990 Royal Academy of Belgian Literature
• 2002 International Latin Union prize of Romance Language Literatures

Works

• Géologie (1958; "Geology"), 1958
• Gengis Khan, Mermod, 1960 (reprint Actes sud, 1989)
• La Machination (1969; "The Plot"), (play)
• Œdipe sur la route, Actes Sud, 1990, ISBN 978-2-86869-510-9
  • Oedipus on the Road. Translator Anne-Marie Glasheen. Arcade Publishing. 1997. ISBN 978-1-55970-382-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• La Chine intérieure (1974; "Inner China") (poems)
• Essai sur la vie de Mao Tsé-toung, Flammarion, 1982, ISBN 2080642235
• Poésie: 1950-1984, Actes Sud, 1986
• Le régiment noir, Éperonniers, 1987
• Diotime et les lions: récit, Actes Sud, 1991, ISBN 978-2-86869-691-5
• L'écriture et la circonstance, Presses universitaires de Louvain, UCL, 1992
• Antigone: roman, Actes Sud, 1997, ISBN 978-2-7427-1724-8
• La déchirure (English: The Tear), Editions Labor, 1998, ISBN 978-2-8040-1337-0
• Journal d'Antigone: 1989-1997, Actes Sud, 1999
• L'enfant bleu: roman, Actes sud, 2004, ISBN 978-2-7427-5139-6
• Le boulevard périphérique: roman, Actes sud, 2008, ISBN 978-2-7427-7169-1
• Déluge, Actes sud, 2010, ISBN 978-2-7427-8989-4

Bibliography

• Surmonte, Emilia, Antigone, La Sphinx d'Henry Bauchau: Les enjeux d'une création (Bruxelles etc., Peter Lang, 2011) (Documents pour l'Histoire des Francophonies. Europe, 24).