Emmanuel Bove

Emmanuel Bove (20 April 1898 – 19 July 1945) was a French writer, who also published under the pseudonyms of Pierre Dugast and Jean Vallois.

Life and career Emmanuel Bove was born Emmanuel Bobovnikoff on 20 April 1898 in Paris to a Jewish father who migrated from Ukraine and a Luxembourgish mother. He studied at the École alsacienne in Paris and the Collège Calvin in Geneva. At the age of 14, he decided to become a novelist. In 1915, he was sent to boarding school in England, where he completed his education. Returning to Paris in 1916, he found himself in a precarious situation.

In 1921, he married Suzanne Vallois and moved to the suburbs of Vienna. There he began his writing career, publishing numerous popular novels under the pseudonym Jean Vallois. He returned to Paris in 1922 and worked as a journalist. His work came to the attention of Colette, who helped him publish his first novel under his own name, Mes amis (My Friends) in 1924. The novel became a success and he consistently published until the Second World War, winning the prix Figuière in 1928.

In 1940, he was mobilized as a laborer and hoped to be able to flee to London. He refused to publish any works during the Occupation. He managed to escape to Algiers in 1942, where he wrote his three final novels: le Piège, Départ dans la nuit and Non-lieu.

He returned to Paris in poor health from diseases caught during his Algerian exile. He died in Paris on July 19, 1945, from Cachexia and heart failure.

Works

Mes amis, novel 1924 Le Crime d'une nuit, novella 1926 Armand, novel 1927 Bécon-les-Bruyères, novel, 1927 La Coalition, novel 1927 La Mort de Dinah, novel 1928 Coeurs et Visages, novel 1928 L'Amour de Pierre Neuhart, novel 1928 Une illusion, novella 1928/1929 Monsieur Thorpe (Les deux masques), 1930 Journal – écrit en hiver, novel 1931 Un Raskolnikoff, novella 1932 Un célibataire, novel 1932 Le Meurtre de Suzy Pommier, crime novel 1933 Le Beau-fils, novel 1934 Le Pressentiment, 1935 (adapted into the film Premonition in 2006) Adieu Fombonne, novel 1937 La Dernière Nuit, novel 1939 Le Piège, novel 1945 Départ dans la nuit, novel 1945 Non-lieu, novel 1946 Mémoires d'un homme singulier, 1987

Works available in English My Friends, trans. Janet Louth; Manchester: Carcanet, 1986. Armand, trans. Janet Louth; Manchester; New York, NY : Carcanet, 1987. Winter's Journal, trans. Nathalie Favre-Gilly; Evanston, Ill. : Marlboro Press/Northwestern, 1998. The Murder of Suzy Pommier, trans. Warre B. Wells. Boston : Little, Brown, 1934. The Stepson, trans. Nathalie Favre-Gilly; Marlboro, Vt. : Marlboro Press, 1991. Quicksand, trans. Dominic Di Bernardi; Marlboro, Vt. : Marlboro Press, 1993. Night Departure; and No Place, trans. Carol Volk; New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. A Singular Man, trans. Dominic Di Bernardi; Marlobor, Vt. : Marlboro Press, 1993. A Raskolnikoff, trans. Mitchell Abidor; Red Dust, 2015. Henri Duchemin and His Shadows, trans. Alyson Waters; New York Review of Books Classics, 2015.