Ernest Hello
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Ernest Hello | |
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College Louis-le-Grand , Paris | |
Period | 19th century |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Subject | Philosophy, theology, literary criticism |
Notable works | Le Siècle |
Spouse | Zoë Berthier |
Ernest Hello (4 November 1828 – 14 July 1885) was a French
.Life
Born at
Frail from infancy, he also suffered from a spinal or bone disease. This struggle probably tinged his prose with a melancholy strain, which is strikingly original as mentioned in
Works
Hello's work is somewhat varied in form but uniform in spirit. His best-known book, Physionomie de saints (1875), which has been translated into English (1903) as Studies in Saintship, does not display his qualities best. Contes extraordinaires, published not long before his death, is more original, being often cited for its artistic yet lucid prose.[1]
But Ernest Hello is mostly remembered now for a series of philosophical and critical essays, from Renan, l'Allemagne et l'atheisme (1861), which was re-published in an enlarged edition posthumously, through L'Homme (1871) on life, art and science in relation to present-day life (it was in its 7th edition by 1905), and Les Plateaux de la balance (1880) to the posthumously published Le Siècle, probably his master-work.[1]
The peculiarity of his standpoint and the originality and vigour of his approach make his studies, of
Publications
- M. Renan, l'Allemagne et l'Athéisme au XIXe Siècle (1859).
- Le Style (1861).
- Œuvres Choisies de Jeanne Chézard de Matel (1870).
- Le Jour du Seigneur (1871).
- L'Homme (1872).
- Physionomies de Saints (1875).
- Contes extraordinaires (1879).
- Les Plateaux de la Balance (1880).
- Philosophie et Athéisme (1888).
- Le Siècle (1896).
- Paroles de Dieu (1899).
- Prières et Méditations Inédites (1911).
- Du Neant à Dieu (1921).
- I. Contradictions et Synthèse.
- II. l'Amour du Néant pour l'Être. La Prière du Néant à l'Être.
- Regards et lumières (1923).
Translated into English
- Life, Science and Art (1912).
- Studies in Saintship (1903).
- Style (Theory and History), Sunny Lou Publishing, ISBN 978-1-955392-10-5, 2021.
References
- ^ a b c d e f public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hello, Ernest". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 246. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Saintsbury, George (1907). The Later Nineteenth Century. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, pp. 149–150.
Further reading
- Guérard, Albert Léon (1913). "Ernest Hello." In: French Prophets of Yesterday. New York: D. Appleton, pp. 63–68.
- Huneker, James (1909). "Ernest Hello." In: Egoists: A Book of Supermen. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 269–276.