Paul Adam (French novelist)

Paul Adam before 1904; Photo of Nadar

Paul Adam, woodcut by Félix Vallotton

Paul Adam (December 7, 1862 – January 2, 1920) was a French novelist.

Career overview

Adam wrote a series of historical novels that dealt with the period of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath; the first installment in the series, La Force, was published in 1899. Together with Jean Moréas, he co-wrote Les Demoiselles Goubert, which was a novel that marked the transition between Naturalism and Symbolism in French literature. His novel Stephanie, which appeared in 1913, argued in favour of arranged marriages as opposed to those founded on romantic attachments.

He was born and died in Paris.^[1]

Works

• Chair molle (1885)
• Soi (1886)
• Les Demoiselles Goubert (with Jean Moréas, 1886)
• Le Thé chez Miranda (with Jean Moréas, 1886)
• La glèbe (1887)
• Les Volontés merveilleuses: Être (1888)
• Les Volontés merveilleuses: L'essence de soleil (1890)
• Les Volontés merveilleuses: en décor (1890)
• L'Époque: Le Vice filial (1891)
• L'Époque: Robes rouges (1891)
• L'Époque: Les Cœurs utiles (1892)
• L'Automne (1893, a censored play)
• Le Conte futur (1893)
• Critique des mœurs (1893)
• Les Images sentimentales (1893)
• Princesses byzantines (1893)
• La Parade amoureuse (1894)
• Le Mystère des foules (1895)
• Les Cœurs nouveaux (1896)
• La Force du mal (1896)
• L'Année de Clarisse (1897, illustrated by Gaston Darbour)
• La bataille d'Uhde (1897)
• Le Vice filial (1898, illustrated by Jan Dědina)
• Le Temps et la Vie:

1. La Force (1899)
2. L'Enfant d'Austerlitz (1901)
3. La Ruse, 1827-1828 (1903)
4. Au soleil de juillet, 1829-1830 (1903)

• Basile et Sophia (1901)
• Lettres de Malaisie (1898)
• Le Troupeau de Clarisse (1904)
• Le Serpent noir (1905)
• Vues d'Amérique (1906)
• Clarisse et l'homme heureux (1907)
• La Morale des Sports (1907)
• La cité prochaine (1908)
• Les Impérialismes et la morale des peuples (1908)
• Le Malaise du monde latin (1910)
• Le Trust (1910)
• Contre l’Aigle (1910)
• Stéphanie (1913)
• Le Lion d'Arras (1919)
• Notre Carthage (1922)

References

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Adam, Paul". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Paul Adam (French novelist).

• Works by Paul Adam at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Paul Adam at Internet Archive
• Works by Paul Adam at Hathi Trust
• Signac, 1863-1935, a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Paul Adam (see index)
• Obituary of Paul Adam