Charles ferdinand ramuz biography definition
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (24 September – 23 May ) was a French-speaking Swiss writer..
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1878-1947) Swiss actor and author, active from 1903, though his early fiction was doggedly realistic.
It was only as a consequence of World War One, which affected him deeply, that he began to produce some sf and several metaphysical fantasies tinged with Allegory.
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The first of these prose-poem fictions is Le Règne de l'esprit malin (1917; trans James Whitall as The Reign of the Evil One1922), in which the Devil comes to live in a country town, where he impersonates Christ or a Christ-figure (see Religion).
Histoire du Soldat ["The Soldier's Tale"] (1920) is cast as a Pantomime-ballet with narrator; it was set to music by Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) in 1918, prior to its formal publication [for Allegory and Pantomime see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy under links below].
The inhabitants of a remote mountain village in Terre du ciel – Joie dans le ciel ["The World of Heaven – Joy in Heaven"] (1921