Duhamel, Georges

Duhamel, Georges

▪ French author
born June 30, 1884, Paris, Fr.
died April 13, 1966, Valmondois, near Paris
 French author most noted for two novel cycles: Vie et aventures de Salavin, 5 vol. (1920–32), and Chronique des Pasquier, 10 vol. (1933–44).

      Duhamel took a science degree in 1908 and qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1909. He began by writing poetry, plays, and literary criticism, and in 1906 he joined with several other writers and artists in founding a short-lived community at Créteil-sur-Marne, known as the Abbaye. Duhamel served as a front-line surgeon during World War I. Deeply moved by the sufferings of war and oppressed by its futility, he recorded his experiences treating the wounded in two short-story collections, Vie des martyrs (1917; The New Book of Martyrs) and Civilisation 1914–1917 (1918); the latter book was awarded the Goncourt Prize.

      In 1920 Duhamel decided to make writing his career. Henceforth he chiefly wrote novels and a great variety of essays and miscellaneous works on social and moral issues. Among his writings is a five-volume autobiography, Lumières sur ma vie (“Lights on My Life”). His two novel cycles also contain many reflections of his own experiences. The Salavin cycle describes the frustrations and perplexities of a “little man” of the 20th century trying to work out his own salvation with no religious faith to sustain him. In the Pasquier cycle, Duhamel relates the history of a French middle-class family from the 1880s to the 1920s. In this work, critics have found his gifts of humour, sympathy, and observation particularly apparent. Duhamel became a member of the Académie Française in 1935.

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