Henry Marx
Henry Marx (12 February 1882 – 14 October 1954) was a French writer.
Biography
Henri Marx, son of Simon Marx, a novelty merchant on rue de Flandre, and Clara Goutchot, began his professional life as a cashier and shop assistant. Then he became a teacher at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, attracted by literature, and began to publish novels, poems, plays and essays throughout his career.
Mobilized in August 1914 as a soldier in the services of the Military Quartermaster's Office, he was promoted to corporal in 1915 and sergeant in 1916 before being discharged in April 1918 for physical problems.
Of socialist political tendency, he contributed in 1912 to La Nouvelle Revue (1910–1914), of which he was secretary. In 1919, he was a contributor to the art and literature journal La Forge. The journal was published by the Ghilde Les Forgerons, a pacifist community born in 1911 among former students of the Chaptal College in Paris and dedicated to "Art Action". Several of his texts deal with the question of homosexuality, such as Ryls, un amour hors la loi (1923).[1] He asserted his Israelite origins, notably in a letter published in 1912 in the Echo Zionist. In 1922, he published a brochure entitled Le sionisme. He ran a popular university, first called "Comprendre" and then "Connaître", which was independent of political or trade union organizations.[2] He seems to end his literary career in the 1930s.
He married Magdeleine Paz (1889–1973), a French journalist, writer and activist in political and human rights movements. She left him to marry Maurice Paz (1896–1985), one of the founders of the French Communist Party.
The theatrical work of Henry-Marx, presented at the Comédie-Française, was not always well received. The writer Paul Léautaud spoke of one of his plays as "a nonsense without a name".[3]
Notes
- ↑ Révenin, Régis (2005). Homosexualité et Prostitution Masculines à Paris: 1870-1918. Paris: L’Harmattan.
- ↑ Mercier, Lucien (1986). Les Universités Populaires. 1899-1914. Éducation Populaire et Mouvement Ouvrier au Début du Siècle. Ivry-sur-Seine: Éditions Ouvrières.
- ↑ Léautaud, Paul (1955). Journal Littéraire. Paris: Mercure de France.
