Henri Troyat
Henri Troyat in 1943
Henri Troyat in 1943
BornLev Aslanovich Tarasov
(1911-11-01)1 November 1911 [O.S. 19 October]
Moscow
Died2 March 2007(2007-03-02) (aged 95)
Paris
Resting placeMontparnasse Cemetery
OccupationNovelist, biographer, historian
LanguageFrench
EducationLycée Pasteur
Period1935-2010
Notable awardsPrix Goncourt (1938)

Henri Troyat (born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov; 1 November [O.S. 19 October] 1911 – 2 March 2007)[1] was a Russian-[2]French author, biographer, historian and novelist.

Early life

Lev Aslanovich Tarasov[3] (Russian: Лев Асланович Тарасов, Lev Aslanovich Tarasov) was born in Moscow to parents of mixed heritage, including Armenian,[4] Russian, German and Georgian. In his autobiography, he states that his surname is Armenian (Torossian), while his maternal grandmother was German and his maternal grandfather was of mixed Georgian and Armenian descent.[5] His family fled Russia after the outbreak of the revolution. After a long exodus taking them to the Caucasus on to Crimea and later by sea to Istanbul and then Venice, the family finally settled in Paris in 1920, where young Troyat was schooled and later earned a law degree. The stirring and tragic events of this flight across half of Europe are vividly recounted by Troyat in Tant que la terre durera.

Career

Troyat received his first literary award, Le prix du roman populaire, at the age of twenty-four, and by twenty-seven, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt. He published more than 100 books, novels and biographies, among them those of Anton Chekhov, Catherine the Great, Rasputin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan the Terrible and Leo Tolstoy. Troyat's best-known work is La neige en deuil, which was adapted as an English-language film in 1956 under the title The Mountain.

Troyat was elected as a member of the Académie Française in 1959. At the time of his death, he was the longest-serving member.

Personal life and death

Troyat's first marriage produced a son before ending in divorce. He later married a widow with a young daughter whom he raised as his own. He died on 2 March 2007 in Paris.[6]

The tomb of Henri Troyat in Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris
Henri Troyat's resting place in Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris

Bibliography

  • 1935: Faux Jour (Plon)
  • 1935: Le Vivier (Plon)
  • 1936: Grandeur nature (Plon)
  • 1937: La Clef de voûte (Plon)
  • 1938: L’Araigne (Plon); UK trans. The Web (1984)
  • 1939: La Fosse commune (Plon)
  • 1940: Dostoïevski (Fayard); Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 1941: Le Jugement de Dieu (Plon)
  • 1942: Le mort saisit le vif (Plon)
  • 1945: Du Philanthrope à la Rouquine (Flammarion)
  • 1945: Le Signe du taureau (Plon)
  • 1946: Les Ponts de Paris (Flammarion)
  • 1946: Pouchkine (Plon); UK trans. Pushkin: His Life and Times (1951) & new trans. Pushkin. A Biography (1974)
  • 1946: Les Vivants, pièce en trois actes (Bonne)
  • 1947: Tant que la terre durera, tome I (La Table ronde); US trans. The Red and the White (1956)
  • 1948: Le Sac et la Cendre, Tant que la terre durera, tome II (La Table ronde); UK trans. Sackcloth and Ashes (1956)
  • 1948: La Case de l’oncle Sam (La Table ronde)
  • 1949: Sébastien, pièce en trois actes (Opéra)
  • 1950: Étrangers sur la terre, Tant que la terre durera, tome III (La Table ronde); UK trans. Strangers in the Land (1958)
  • 1951: La Tête sur les épaules (Plon); UK trans. Head in the Clouds (1979)
  • 1952: La Neige en deuil (Flammarion); UK trans. The Mountain (1953)
  • 1952: L’Étrange Destin de Lermontov (Plon)
  • 1953: Les Semailles et les Moissons, tome I (Plon); US trans. Amelie in Love (1956)
  • 1955: De Gratte-ciel en cocotier (Plon)
  • 1955: Amélie, Les Semailles et les Moissons, tome II (Plon); US trans. Amelie and Pierre (1957)
  • 1956: La Maison des bêtes heureuses (Bias)
  • 1956: Sainte Russie, souvenirs et réflexions suivi de l’Assassinat d’Alexandre II (Grasset)
  • 1956: La Grive, Les Semailles et les Moissons, tome III (Plon); US trans. Elizabeth (1959)
  • 1957: Tendre et violente Elisabeth, Les Semailles et les Moissons, tome IV (Plon); US trans. Tender and Violent Elizabeth (1960)
  • 1958: La Rencontre, Les Semailles et les Moissons, tome V (Plon); US trans. The Encounter (1962)
  • 1958: Naissance d’une Dauphine (Gallimard)
  • 1959: La Vie quotidienne en Russie au temps du dernier tsar (Hachette); UK trans. Daily Life in Russia Under the Last Tsar (1961)
  • 1959: La Lumière des justes, tome I : Les Compagnons du Coquelicot. (Flammarion); UK trans. The Brotherhood of the Red Poppy (1962)
  • 1960: La Lumière des justes, tome II : La Barynia. (Flammarion); US trans. The Baroness (1961)
  • 1961: La Lumière des justes, tome III : La Gloire des vaincus. (Flammarion)
  • 1962: La Lumière des justes, tome IV : Les Dames de Sibérie. (Flammarion)
  • 1963: La Lumière des justes, tome V : Sophie ou la Fin des combats. (Flammarion)
  • 1963: Une extrême amitié (La Table ronde); UK trans. An Intimate Friendship (1967)
  • 1964: Le Geste d’Ève (Flammarion)
  • 1965: Tolstoï (Fayard); UK trans. Tolstoy (1968)
  • 1965: Les Eygletière, tome I (Flammarion)
  • 1966: La Faim des lionceaux, Les Eygletière, tome II (Flammarion)
  • 1967: La Malandre, Les Eygletière, tome III (Flammarion)
  • 1968: Les Héritiers de l’avenir, tome I : Le Cahier. (Flammarion)
  • 1969: Les Héritiers de l’avenir, tome II : Cent un coups de canon. (Flammarion)
  • 1970: Les Héritiers de l’avenir, tome III : L’Éléphant blanc. (Flammarion)
  • 1971: Gogol (Flammarion); UK trans. Gogol: The Biography of a Divided Soul (1974)
  • 1971: Kisling 1891-1953 (Jean Kisling) avec Joseph Kessel
  • 1972: La Pierre, la Feuille et les Ciseaux (Flammarion)
  • 1973: Anne Prédaille (Flammarion)
  • 1974: Le Moscovite, t. I (Flammarion)
  • 1974: Les Désordres secrets, Le Moscovite, t. II (Flammarion)
  • 1975: Les Feux du matin, Le Moscovite, t. III (Flammarion)
  • 1976: Un si long chemin (Stock)
  • 1976: Le Front dans les nuages (Flammarion)
  • 1976: Grimbosq (Flammarion)
  • 1977: Catherine la Grande (Flammarion); UK trans. Catherine the Great (1979)
  • 1978: Le Prisonnier n° I (Flammarion)
  • 1979: Pierre le Grand (Flammarion); UK trans. Peter the Great (1988)
  • 1980: Viou, tome I (Flammarion); UK trans. Sylvie (1982)
  • 1981: Alexandre I er (Flammarion); UK trans. Alexander of Russia (1984)
  • 1982: Le Pain de l’étranger (Flammarion)
  • 1982: Ivan le Terrible (Flammarion); UK trans. Ivan the Terrible (1985)
  • 1983: La Dérision (Flammarion)
  • 1984: Tchekhov (Flammarion); UK trans. Chekhov (1987)
  • 1984: Marie Karpovna (Flammarion)
  • 1985: Tourgueniev (Flammarion); UK trans. Turgenev. A Biography (1989)
  • 1985: Le Bruit solitaire du cœur (Flammarion)
  • 1986: À demain, Sylvie, Viou, tome II (Flammarion); UK trans. Sylvie - Happiness (1989)
  • 1986: Gorki (Flammarion); UK trans. Gorky. A Biography (1989)
  • 1987: Le Troisième Bonheur, Viou, tome III (Flammarion)
  • 1988: Toute ma vie sera mensonge (Flammarion)
  • 1988: Flaubert (Flammarion); Flaubert (1992)
  • 1989: Maupassant (Flammarion); Guy de Maupassant
  • 1989: La Gouvernante française (Flammarion)
  • 1990: La Femme de David (Flammarion)
  • 1990: Alexandre II, le tsar libérateur (Flammarion); Alexander II of Russia
  • 1991: Aliocha (Flammarion)
  • 1991: Nicolas II, le dernier tsar (Flammarion); Nicholas II of Russia
  • 1992: Youri (Flammarion)
  • 1992: Zola (Flammarion); Emile Zola
  • 1993: Verlaine (Flammarion); Paul Verlaine
  • 1993: Le Chant des Insensés (Flammarion)
  • 1994: Baudelaire (Flammarion); Charles Baudelaire
  • 1994: Le Marchand de masques (Flammarion)
  • 1995: Balzac (Flammarion); Honore de Balzac
  • 1995: Le Défi d’Olga (Flammarion)
  • 1996: Votre très humble et très obéissant serviteur (Flammarion)
  • 1996: Raspoutine (Flammarion); Rasputin trans. German and Swedish (1998), Spanish (2004)
  • 1997: L’Affaire Crémonnière (Flammarion)
  • 1997: Juliette Drouet (Flammarion); Juliette Drouet
  • 1998: Le Fils du satrape (Grasset)
  • 1998: Terribles tsarines (Grasset)
  • 1999: Les turbulences d’une grande famille (Grasset)
  • 1999: Namouna ou la chaleur animale (Grasset)
  • 2000: Nicolas Ier (Librairie académique Perrin); Nicholas I of Russia
  • 2000: La Ballerine de Saint-Pétersbourg (Plon)
  • 2001: Marina Tsvetaena : L'éternelle insurgée (Grasset); Marina Tsvetaeva
  • 2001: La Fille de l'écrivain (Grasset)
  • 2002: L'Étage des bouffons (Grasset)
  • 2004: La Fiancée de l'ogre (Grasset)
  • 2004: Alexandre III (Grasset); Alexander III of Russia
  • 2004: La Baronne et le musicien (Grasset)
  • 2005: Alexandre Dumas. Le cinquième mousquetaire (Grasset); Alexandre Dumas
  • 2006: La Traque (Grasset)
  • 2006: Pasternak (Grasset); Boris Pasternak
  • 2008: Boris Godunov (Flammarion); Boris Godunov
  • 2009: Le Pas du juge (Bernard de Fallois)
  • 2009: La folie des anges (Bernard de Fallois)
  • 2010: "Trois mères, trois fils" (Bernard de Fallois)

A fictionalised version of Henry Troyat is featured in the 2014–2015 Image Comics Millarworld comic book series MPH by Mark Millar and Duncan Fegredo as the former Chief Scientific Officer of France's superhuman development program and inventor of the titular "MPH" super-speed pill, who disappeared in 1984 and has been living in-hiding ever since (bar attending the occasional jazz festival).[7] While Millar revealed in an interview in January 2014 that the character would return in another then-untitled title set in the Millarworld shared fictional universe the following year, which turned out to be Huck, the character would be renamed "Orlov" for this follow-up appearance.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Académie française: Latest news. Some sources report that he died on 4 March 2007.
  2. ↑ The Independent | Obituaries
  3. ↑ The Independent | Obituaries
  4. ↑ Staff writers (5 March 2007). "Eminent French writer Troyat dies". BBC News. Retrieved 7 November 2008.
  5. ↑ Henry Troyat Notes
  6. ↑ Riding, Alan (6 March 2007). "Henri Troyat, 95, a Force in French Literature, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  7. ↑ Millar, Mark (w), Fegredo, Duncan (a). MPH, vol. .1 (April 22, 2015). Portland, Oregon: Image Comics. Retrieved on April 22, 2015.
  8. ↑ Phegley, Kiel (30 January 2014). "Exclusive: Millar Unveils Millarworld From "MPH" To Hitch & Murphy". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on 31 January 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
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