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Henri Barbusse ((:ɑ̃ʁi baʁbys); May 17, 1873 – August 30, 1935) was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein.〔Einstein on Politics, Princeton University Press, 2007〕 ==Life== The son of a French father and an English mother, Barbusse was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, France in 1873.〔Time Magazine, Monday, 9 September 1935〕 Although he grew up in a small town, he left for Paris in 1889, at age 16. In 1914, at age 41, he enlisted in the French Army and served against Germany in World War I. Invalided out of the army three times, Barbusse would serve in the war for 17 months, until the end of 1915, when he was permanently moved into a clerical position due to pulmonary damage, exhaustion, and dysentery. Barbusse first came to fame with the publication of his novel ''Le Feu'' (translated by William Fitzwater Wray as ''Under Fire'') in 1916, which was based on his experiences during World War I. By this time, Barbusse had become a pacifist, and his writing demonstrated his growing hatred of militarism. ''Le Feu'' drew criticism at the time for its harsh naturalism, but won the Prix Goncourt. In January 1918, he left France and moved to Moscow, where he married a Russian woman and joined the Bolshevik Party. His novel, ''Clarté'', is about an office worker who, while serving in the army, begins to realize that the imperialist war is a crime. The Russian Revolution had significant influence on Barbusse's life and work. He joined the French Communist Party in 1923 and later traveled back to the Soviet Union. His later works, ''Manifeste aux Intellectuels'' (''Elevations'') (1930) and others, show a more revolutionary standpoint. Of these, the 1921 ''Le Couteau entre les dents'' (''The Knife Between My Teeth'') marks Barbusse's siding with Bolshevism and the October Revolution. Barbusse characterized the birth of Soviet Russia as "the greatest and most beautiful phenomenon in world history." The book ''Light from the Abyss'' (1919) and the collection of articles ''Words of a Fighting Man'' (1920) contain calls for the overthrow of capitalism. In 1925, Barbusse published ''Chains'', showing history as the unbroken chain of suffering of people and their struggle for freedom and justice. In the publicistic book ''The Butchers'', he exposes the White Terror in the Balkan countries. In 1927, Barbusse participated in the Congress of Friends of the Soviet Union in Moscow. He led the World Congress Against Imperialist War (Amsterdam, 1932) and headed the World Committee Against War and Fascism, founded in 1933. He also took part in the work of the International Youth Congress (Paris, 1933) and the International Congress of Writers in Defense of Culture. Additionally, in the 1920s and 1930s, he edited the periodicals ''Monde'' (1928–1935) and ''Progrès Civique'', which published some of George Orwell's first writings. In 1934, Barbusse sent Egon Kisch to Australia to represent the International Movement Against War and Fascism as part of his work for the Comintern. The resulting unsuccessful exclusion of Egon Kisch from Australia by the Conservative Australian Government succeeded in energizing Communism in Australia and resulted in Kisch's staying longer than Barbusse had intended. An associate of Romain Rolland's and editor of ''Clarté'', he attempted to define a "proletarian literature", akin to ''Proletkult'' and Socialist realism. Barbusse was the author of a 1936 biography of Joseph Stalin, titled ''Staline: Un monde nouveau vu à travers un homme'' (''Stalin. A New World Seen Through the Man''). Barbusse subsequently led a violent press campaign against his former friend Panait Istrati, a Romanian writer who had expressed criticism of the Soviet state. Barbusse in turn was harshly criticized for his admiration of Stalin and his propagandist activities on behalf of Soviet Russia by his former comrade Victor Serge, who noted that Barbusse had dedicated a book to Leon Trotsky before Stalin had definitively won the power struggle against Trotsky, only to denounce Trotsky as a traitor after the latter's fall from power. Serge called Barbusse a hypocrite who was determined to be on the winning side. Barbusse was an Esperantist, and was honorary president of the first congress of the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda. In 1921, he wrote an article titled "Esperantista Laboristo" ("Esperantist worker") for ''Esperanto'' journal.〔''(Enciklopedio de Esperanto )''. 1933.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henri Barbusse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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