Eugene Dabit (21 September 1898 in

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– 21 August 1936 in

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) was a French socialist writer. He was part of the group "

proletarian literature Proletarian literature refers here to the literature created by left-wing writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat. Though the '' Encyclopædia Britannica'' states that because it "is essentially an intended device of revolution", it is ...

" and had a great success for his novel ''L'Hôtel du Nord'' which won the du ''Prix du roman populiste'' and was filmed in 1938 by

Marcel Carné Marcel Albert Carné (; 18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include ''Port of Shadows'' (1938), '' Le Jour Se Lève'' (1939), '' The Devil's Envoy ...

. He maintained an important correspondence with Roger Martin du Gard. Dabit was a friend and literary and political associate of

André Gide André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism ...

; he died of an illness while accompanying Gide on a trip to the Soviet Union in 1936.Introduction, Eugène Dabit, ''L'Hôtel du Nord'' (Denoël, 1993). Dabit was also an artist, having studied at the

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with Louis-François Biloul.

Works

*Petit Louis (1930) *L'Hôtel du Nord (1929) *Yvonne (1929 - inédit, éd. 2009) *La zone verte (1935, rééd. 2009) *Les maîtres de la peinture espagnole (1937) *Au Pont Tournant *Le mal de vivre (avec Étrangères)(1937) *Train de vies *Faubourgs de Paris *Un mort tout neuf *L’île (Gallimard, 1934) *Villa Oasis ou Les faux bourgeois (1932) *Ville lumière *Journal intime (1926-1938)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dabit, Eugene 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French male writers 1898 births 1936 deaths French socialists Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery French male novelists