Francis Carco
Francis Carco (born François Carcopino-Tusoli) (1886–1958) was a
bohemian life
in Paris during the early years of the 20th century.
He had an affair with the short story writer
Turnbull Library). She also wrote a letter to her husband from Carco's Paris flat on 8/9 May 1915.[2]
Carco held the ninth seat at
Cimetière de Bagneux
. He was the author of:
- Instincts (1911)
- Jésus-la-Caille (novel, 1914)
- Les Innocents (1917)
- Au coin des rues (tales, 1918, 1922)
- Les Malheurs de Fernande (sequel to Jésus-la-Caille, 1918)
- Les Mystères de la Morgue ou les Fiancés du IVº arrondissement. Roman gai (1918)
- L'Equipe (1919)
- La Poésie (1919)
- Maman Petitdoigt (1920)
- Francis Carco, raconté par lui-meme (1921; in the collection Ceux dont on parle, edited by Marc Saunier and published by R. Chiberre)
- Promenades pittoresques à Montmartre (1922)
- L'homme traqué (1922; Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française)
- Vérotchka l'Étrangère ou le Gout du malheur (1923)
- Perversité (1925) (the English translation of this by Jean Rhys was mis-attributed to Ford Madox Ford under murky circumstances)[3]
- Le Roman de François Villon (1926), a heavily fictionalised biography of the 15th-century poet
- Brumes (1935)
- Panam, prose-poem of Paris Madam, (1922; Librairie Stock): "Of all the pleasures, it is those of the night that I prefer, when the street glitters in the fog and around the corner in a cul-de-sac glows the red light with the three letters of that magnetic word: Bal."
See also
- Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
References
- ^ Translation published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928
- ISBN 0-19-558113-X.
- ^ Glover, Douglas. "All the Sad Clowns: On Francis Carco's Novel Perversity" Los Angeles Review of Books July 19, 2020
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.)
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