Franz Hessel

Franz Hessel (November 21, 1880 – January 6, 1941) was a German writer and translator. With Walter Benjamin, he produced a German translation of three volumes of Marcel Proust's 1913-1927 work À la recherche du temps perdu in the late 1920s.[1]

Hessel's parents, Fanny and Heinrich Hessel, came to Berlin in 1880, and joined the Lutheran church (having been born Jewish).[2] Hessel became one of the first German exponents of the French idea of flânerie, and in 1929 published a collection of essays on the subject related to his native Berlin, Walking in Berlin (German: Spazieren in Berlin).[3][4]

Hessel's son Stéphane Hessel became a diplomat.

Hessel inspired the character of Jules in Henri-Pierre Roche's novel Jules et Jim.[5][6]

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103677188
  2. ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/best-selling-french-author-and-holocaust-survivor-has-some-advice-for-israel-1.417320
  3. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=1qxo5hG9ctkC&lpg=PA2&ots=CZasoUI64C&dq=%22franz%20hessel%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q=%22franz%20hessel%22&f=false
  4. ↑ http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/shorts/reviews/rev1199/lcbr8a.htm
  5. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/25/style/25iht-blume_ed3_.html
  6. ↑ http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/23/julesjim.html


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