Victor Segalen - biography, career, poetry
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Victor Segalen (January 14, 1878 - May 21, 1919) was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist, literary critic.
He was born in Brest. He studied naval medicine in Bordeaux. He traveled and lived in Polynesia (1903-1905) and China (1909-1914 and 1917). He died by accident in a forest in Huelgoat, France (’under mysterious circumstances’ and reputedly with an open copy of ’Hamlet’ by his side).
He gave his name to the Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 University of literature and social sciences in Brest.
Works include
A dreuz an Arvor (1899)
L’observation médicale chez les écrivains naturalistes (Thesis, Bordeaux, 1901)
Les Immémoriaux (under the pseudonym Max Anély) (1907)
Stèles (prose poems, 1912)
Peintures (1916)
Posthumous publications:
Orphée-Roi (1921)
René Leys (1922)
Mission archéologique en Chine (in collaboration with Gilbert de Voisins and Jean Lartigue) (1923-1924)
Équipée. De Pékin aux marches thibétaines (1929)
Voyage au pays du réel (1929)
Lettres de Chine (1967)
La Grande Statuaire chinoise (1972)
Journal des îles (1978)
Le Fils du ciel : chronique des jours souverains (1985)
About the author:
http://www.wikipedia.org
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