Background
Henry Bauchau was born in Mechelen, Belgium on 22 January 1913. His early childhood is marked by the German invasion and the fire of his mother's home in Leuven.
Henry Bauchau
Bauchau studied law at the Saint-Louis University.
Bauchau studied law at the University of Louvain.
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An award-winning Belgian author writes a missing chapter for Sophocles's Oedipus, as the blinded Oedipus endures numerous rites of passage that lead him to spiritual and physical realization. First serial, Grand Street.
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novelist playwright psychologist psychotherapist poet
Henry Bauchau was born in Mechelen, Belgium on 22 January 1913. His early childhood is marked by the German invasion and the fire of his mother's home in Leuven.
Bauchau studied law at the Saint-Louis University and later at the University of Louvain.
Before being mobilized in 1939, Bauchau worked in journalism and took part in Christian youth movements. He became a trial lawyer in Brussels in 1936. During the World War II, from July 1940 to June 1943, before joining an armed Resistance movement, he was in charge of Le Service des volontaires du travail pour la Wallonie (The Volunteer Service for Wallonia). While he was in a squad of Maquis in the Ardennes he was wounded forced to leave for London until the end of the war.
Bauchau’s action under the Le Service des volontaires du travail pour la Wallonie were considered suspicious after the end of the war, but he was officially acquitted by the military court. Nevertheless, he was insulted by this incrimination and moved from Belgium to live in Switzerland and France. In Paris he worked for Franco-Algerian Franco-Algerian publisher Edmond Charlot.
In 1958 Bauchau published his first collection of poems, Géologie, which won the Max Jacob Award. In 1960, Ariane Mnouchkine put his play Genghis Khan on the stage at the Arènes de Lutèce. Later he begins his mythological cycle and releases Œdipe sur la route in 1990, Diotime et les Lions in 1991 and Antigone in 1997. At the same time, the publication of his Journal (1989-1997) sheds new light on the topic of creation and makes it possible to understand the importance that poetry, dreams, the unconscious and writing represent for the writer.
Bauchau died in Louveciennes, France on September 21, 2012.
(An award-winning Belgian author writes a missing chapter ...)
1990Bauchau took part in Christian youth movements.
Henry Bauchau supported the idea of Algerian independence being influenced by his friend Jean Amrouche.
Quotations:
Henry Bauchau in his book L'Enfant bleu:
“We shouldn't console ourselves. The truth is to be inconsolable and happy.”
Henry Bauchau married Mary Kozyrev. Their son Patrick Bauchau is an actor. His other son Christian Bauchau is a geologist.