Janine Buenzod

Janine Buenzod (born June 18, 1926), also known by the pen name of Janine Marat, is a Swiss novelist and literary scholar.

Biography

Janine Buenzod was born at the Canton of Vaud, the daughter of the writer Emmanuel Buenzod and granddaughter of the painter Henri Bercher. After secondary school in Vevey, she studied literature in Geneva under Marcel Raymond (her thesis, which she completed in 1966, was on the thought of Arthur de Gobineau).

She first taught at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Geneva, then, attracted by literary fiction, published two novels, Le Beau Monstre (1953) and Le Mage (1955), before devoting herself almost exclusively to journalism. Buenzod wrote a literary column for the Tribune de Genève and then for the Gazette de Lausanne. She also worked for Radio Suisse Romande and for France Culture.

Works

Selected publications

• "Une Correspondance Inédite de Gobineau," Journal de Genève, No. 173 (1958)
• "Deux Masques Inédits de Gobineau et Goethe," Journal de Genève, No. 203 (1958)
• Arthur de Gobineau, Lettres d’un Voyage en Russie, en Asie Mineure et en Grèce: 1876. Lausanne: Faculté des Lettres (1961)
• "Gobiniana," Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France, 61e Année, No. 4 (1961)
• "Une Inédit de Gobineau," Journal de Genève, No. 294 (1961)
• "Preface." In: Adélaïde: suivi de Mademoiselle Irnois. Lausanne: Guilde du Livre (1962)
• "Un Grand Cosmopolite et un ‘Alceste du Patriotisme’: Le Comte de Gobineau". In: François Jost, ed., Actes du IVe Congrès de l’Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée: Fribourg 1964. Mouton (1966)
• La Formation de la Pensée de Gobineau et l’Essai sur l’Inégalité des Races Humaines. Paris: A. G. Nizet (1967)
• "Plaidoyer por un Écrivain Maldit," Journal de Genève, No. 99 (1967)
• "Gobineau ou le voyageur sur la terre." In: Michel Crouzet, ed., Arthur de Gobineau cent ans après 1882-1982. Actes du Colloque de la Société des Études Romantiques, novembre 1982. Paris: Librairie Minard (1990)

Fiction

• Le Beau monstre (1953; novel)
• Le Mage (1955; novel)

References

• Henri-Charles Tauxe, "Moments Littéraires," Gazette de Lausanne, No. 199 (1967)
• Alain Nicollier & Henri-Charles Dahlem, Dictionnaire d'écrivains suisses d'expression française, Vol. II. Genève: GVA (1994), pp. 557–58.
• P. O. Walzer, "Gobineau: Le Première Explication Cohérente," Journal de Genève, No. 264 (1967)