WRITER

Henri Barbusse

1873 - 1935

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Henri Barbusse (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi baʁbys]; 17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a neo-Naturalist novelist; in 1916, he published Under Fire, a novel about World War I based on his experience which is described as one of the earliest works of the Lost Generation movement or as the work which started it; the novel had a major impact on the later writers of the movement, namely on Ernest Hemingway and Erich Maria Remarque. Barbusse is considered as one of the important French writers of 1910–1939 who mingled the war memories with moral and political meditations.Before World War I, Barbusse was a pacifist, but in 1914, he volunteered for wartime service and was awarded with Croix de guerre; during the war, he was influenced by the Communists and came to belief that a Revolution against the imperialist governments would be the only quick way to end the war and to deal with militarism and reaction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Barbusse has received more than 169,910 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Henri Barbusse is the 500th most popular writer (up from 509th in 2019), the 585th most popular biography from France (up from 604th in 2019) and the 88th most popular French Writer.

Henri Barbusse is most famous for his book, Under Fire, which is a first-hand account of the First World War.

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  • 66.91

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  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.04

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  • 3.21

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Notable Works

Le feu
1916
Light
1919
L' enfer
1949
Under fire
1917
The Inferno
1932
Feu
1917

Page views of Henri Barbusses by language

Over the past year Henri Barbusse has had the most page views in the with 48,649 views, followed by Russian (22,335), and English (21,920). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malayalam (93.48%), Latin (68.52%), and Belarusian (61.44%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henri Barbusse ranks 500 out of 7,302. Before him are Muhammad Iqbal, Patricia Highsmith, George R. R. Martin, G. K. Chesterton, Christopher Marlowe, and Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet. After him are Gérard de Nerval, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Thomas Paine, Baldassare Castiglione, Philip Larkin, and Anthony Burgess.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Henri Barbusse ranks 11. Before him are Colette, Konstantin von Neurath, Jules Rimet, Alexis Carrel, Thomas Andrews, and Luigi Lucheni. After him are Alfred Jarry, Otto Loewi, Karl Schwarzschild, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and Julius Martov. Among people deceased in 1935, Henri Barbusse ranks 19. Before him are André Citroën, Carlos Gardel, Auguste Escoffier, Victor Grignard, Charles Richet, and Izz ad-Din al-Qassam. After him are Paul Dukas, Hugo de Vries, Henri Pirenne, Komitas, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, and Mihajlo Pupin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Barbusse ranks 585 out of 6,770. Before him are Luigi Lucheni (1873), Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (1383), Niki de Saint Phalle (1930), Francis, Duke of Guise (1519), Maurice Jarre (1924), and Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627). After him are René Lacoste (1904), Gérard de Nerval (1808), Joseph Proust (1754), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Roger Garaudy (1913), and Margaret of Anjou (1430).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Henri Barbusse ranks 88. Before him are Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Jules Michelet (1798), Louise de La Vallière (1644), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), and Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627). After him are Gérard de Nerval (1808), Anaïs Nin (1903), Alfred Jarry (1873), Camille Flammarion (1842), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), and Pierre de Ronsard (1524).

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