Maurice Dekobra

Maurice Dekobra in 1927

Maurice Dekobra (26 May 1885, Paris – 1 June 1973, Paris) was a French writer. His real name was Ernest-Maurice Tessier.[1][2]

Viewed [by whom?] as a subversive writer in the 1920s and 1930s, he became one of the best-known French writers between the First and the Second World Wars.[1] His books have been translated into 77 languages, and he has been described as an early example of an international best-seller writer. This is particularly true of his best known work, La Madone des Sleepings (1925).[1][3]

In spite of this, and the publication of a biography by Philippe Collas in 2001, he was declared a "total unknown"[1] in 2005, though the republication of La Madone des Sleepings by the publisher Zulma[4] in 2006 has increased awareness of him, at least in France.[5]

  1. ^ a b c d Maurice Dekobra, Voyage au pays de l’oubli Archived 7 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Maurice Dekobra". Babelio (in French). Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  3. ^ Verstraeten & Van Hove, Pieter & Karen (2015). "IMAGINING ADVENTURE IN MIDDLEBROW FICTION: Cosmopolitan Novels by Maurice Dekobra and Johan Fabricius". Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Française. 9 (1): 102–118. doi:10.18352/relief.910.
  4. ^ "La Madone des Sleepings - Editions Zulma". zulma.fr. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  5. ^ Maurice Dekobra. "La Madone des Sleepings" (PDF). Éditions Zulma. Retrieved 24 January 2023.