Joseph Peyré


Joseph Peyré was a French writer. He won the Prix Goncourt in 1935 for Sang et Lumières.

Life

His father was a schoolteacher. He studied at Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, at the Lycee Louis-Barthou, then Paris and Bordeaux, he went into journalism.
Three themes animate the work of the "novelist of loneliness and the exaltation of man":
  • The desert and travels through the sand, in his Sahara cycle, in particular White Squadron, The Leader in the Star Silver, The Legend of goumier Said;
  • Spain, seen in Sang et Lumières or Guadalquivir;
  • The mountain, in the Matterhorn and Mount Everest.
Joseph Peyre has also devoted several books to his native Béarn, The Pit and the house, my Bearn basque to the sea, and the Basque Country: Basque John, The Bridge of spells.

Posterity

His memory still lives, in Vic-Bihl taurine where tradition persists. The "trophy Joseph Peyre, presented annually by the Peña Garlin of taurine, rewards the triumph of novilladas summer.
Aydie, the birthplace of Peyre, is part of the canton of Garlin; College of Garlin named Joseph Peyre.

Works

Sur la terrasse, 1922Francis Carco, 1923Les Complices, 1928Xénia, préface by Joseph Kessel, 1930L'Escadron blanc, 1931Le Chef à l'étoile d'argent, 1933Sous l'étendard vert, 1934Coups durs, 1935Sang et Lumières, 1935L'Homme de choc, 1936Roc-Gibraltar, 1937De cape et d'épée, 1938Matterhorn, 1939Croix du sud, 1942Mont Everest, 1942Proie des ombres, 1943Romanesque Tanger, 1943Sahara éternel, 1944Un soldat chez les hommes, 1946Mallory et son dieu, 1947La Tour de l'or, 1947L'Étang Réal, 1949La Légende du goumier Saïd, 1950Inoa, 1951De mon Béarn à la mer basque, 1952Guadalquivir, 1952Jean le Basque, 1953La Passion selon Séville..., 1953Le Puits et la Maison , 1955Les Quatre Capitaines, 1956De sable et d'or, 1957Une fille de Saragosse, 1957Pays basque, Les Albums des Guides bleus, 1957Souvenirs d'un enfant, 1958Le Pont des sorts, 1959Le Pré aux ours, 1959Cheval piaffant - un Basque chez les Sioux, 1960Le Plan du soleil, 1960Les Lanciers de Jerez, 1961Les Remparts de Cadix, 1962L'Alcade de San Juan, 1963Feu et sang de juillet, 1964