page_title: Franz Hellens
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Franz Hellens / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial plaque of Franz Hellens on the facade of his home in Ixelles, Bruxelles Български: Паметна плоча на Франц Хеленс в Брюксел
context_page_description: Franz Hellens, born Frédéric van Ermengem was a prolific Belgian novelist, poet and critic. Although of Flemish descent, he wrote entirely in French, and lived in Paris from 1947 to 1971. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
  He is known as one of the major figures in Belgian magic realism, and as the indefatigable editor of Signaux de France et de Belgique. The only work translated into English is Mémoires d'Elseneur.
  His father, Émile van Ermengem, was the bacteriologist who discovered the cause of botulism. His younger brother was the writer François Maret.
context_section_description: En ville morte, 1906
  Les hors-le-vent, 1909
  Les clartés latentes. Vingt contes et paraboles, 1912
  Nocturnal, preceded by Quinze histoires, 1919
  Mélusine, 1920, 1952
  La femme au prisme, 1920
  Bass-Bassina-Boulou, 1922
  Réalités fantastiques, 1923
  Notes prises d'une lucarne, 1925
  Oeil-de-Dieu, 1925, 1959
  Le naïf, Paris, 1926
  Eclairages, 1916–1923, 1926
  L'Enfant et l'écuyère, 1927
  Le jeune homme Annibal, 1929, 1961
  La femme partagée, 1929
  Les filles du désir, 1930
  Documents secrets, 1905–1931, 1932
  Poésie de la veille et du lendemain 1917–1927, 1932
  Fraîcheur de la mer, 1933
  Frédéric, 1935
  Le magasin aux poudres, 1936
  Nouvelles réalités fantastiques, 1943
  Moralités peu salutaires, 1943
  Fantômes vivants, 1944
  La vie seconde, 1945, 1963
  Moreldieu, 1946, 1960
  Naître et mourir, 1948
  Miroirs conjugués, 1950
  Pourriture noble, 1951
  Testament, 1951
  L'homme de soixante ans, 1951
  Les marées de l'Escaut, 1953
  Mémoires d'Elseneur, 1954. English translation by Howard Curtis. (2000). Memories of Elsinore. New York: Peter Lang
  Style et caractère, 1956
  Les saisons de Pontoise, 1956
  Dans l'automne de mon grand âge, 1956
  Documents secrets 1905-1956, 1958
  Poésie complète, 1905–1959, 1959
  Petit théâtre aux chandelles, 1960
  L'âge dur, 1957–1960, 1961
  Valeurs sûres, 1962
  Herbes méchantes, 1964
  La comédie des portraits, 1965
  Poétique des éléments et des mythes, 1966
  Le dernier jour du monde, 1967
  Le fantastique réel, 1967
  Arrière-saisons, 1960–1967, 1967
  Paroles sans musique, 1969
  Cet âge qu'on dit grand, essay, 1970
caption: Memorial plaque of Franz Hellens in Ixelles, Brussels
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