Isabelle Eberhardt (1877–1904)
Autor(a) de The Oblivion Seekers and Other Writings
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Obras de Isabelle Eberhardt
Los diarios de una nómada apasionada (BackList Contemporáneos No Ficción) (Spanish Edition) (2008) 4 cópias
I cercatori di oblio 2 cópias
Sandmeere. Tagwerke im hesien schatten des islam, vol. 1 1 exemplar(es)
Sandmeere Tagwerke 1 exemplar(es)
Južnooranske i druge priče 1 exemplar(es)
Lettres et journaliers 1 exemplar(es)
Taalith 1 exemplar(es)
Hacia los horizontes azules 1899-1902 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Eberhardt, Isabelle
- Outros nomes
- Essadi, Si Mahmoud
- Data de nascimento
- 1877
- Data de falecimento
- 1904
- Local de enterro
- Aïn Sefra, Algeria
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Switzerland
- Local de nascimento
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Local de falecimento
- Aïn Sefra, Algeria
- Locais de residência
- Geneva, Switzerland
Marseille, France
Annaba, Algeria
El Oued, Algeria
Aïn Sefra, Algeria - Ocupação
- explorer
writer
journalist - Relacionamentos
- Moerder, Nathalie (mother)
Trophimowsky, Alexandre (father)
Ehnni, Slimane (husband) - Pequena biografia
- Isabelle Eberhardt was born in Geneva, Switzerland to an aristocratic Baltic German mother, Nathalie Eberhardt de Moerder, and a Russian father, Alexandre Trophimowsky, a tutor and anarchist. The family lived a reclusive life in a villa on the outskirts of the city. Isabelle was educated at home by her father and became fluent in French, Russian, German, and Italian; she also learned Latin, Greek, and Arabic. She often dressed in male attire and was free to pursue boyish activities. In 1895, as a teenager, she published her first short story under a male pseudonym. She developed a great interest in North Africa, and moved with her mother to Algeria in 1897. There she dressed as a man, eventually adopting the name Si Mahmoud Saadi. In this guise, she traveled widely on horseback in the Maghreb (northwestern Africa) and visited places that were otherwise forbidden to women. Her unconventional behavior made her an outcast among European settlers in Algeria and the French administration, which considered her to be a spy or an agitator. In 1901, the French administration ordered her to leave the country, but she was allowed to return to Algeria the following year after marrying Slimane Ehnni, a soldier. Following her return, Isabelle wrote articles for newspapers and magazines, including a French-language Algerian paper of Victor Barrucand. She moved to Aïn Séfra, where in 1904, at the age of 27, she was killed by a flash flood.
In 1906, Barrucand began publishing her remaining manuscripts, which received critical acclaim. Her life has been the subject of several works, including the 1991 film Isabelle Eberhardt.
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- 45
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- Membros
- 598
- Popularidade
- #42,016
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 17
- ISBNs
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- Idiomas
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The author is a young Swiss, born in 1877. She grew up in an unconventional family environment (her father was an ex-Orthodox priest turned atheist), was home schooled and took to wearing boys clothes as a matter of course. She travelled widely in colonial Algeria, often, apparently, gaining access to some places and events by her old habit of cross-dressing. She died so very prematurely, in a flood at 27.
Her writing is vivid and tells of life in an exotic and lost world. She was largely spurned by the French colonists, but lived an extraordinary life for the times.
Amazing.… (mais)