Henri Bergson
Born
in Paris, France
October 18, 1859
Died
January 04, 1941
Website
Genre
Influences
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Matter and Memory
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238 editions
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published
1896
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Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
97 editions
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published
1900
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Creative Evolution
411 editions
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published
1907
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Time and Free Will
3 editions
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published
1889
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An Introduction to Metaphysics
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102 editions
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published
1903
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The Creative Mind
20 editions
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published
1934
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The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
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145 editions
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published
1932
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Mind-Energy (Henri Bergson Centennial Series)
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159 editions
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published
1919
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Dreams
4 editions
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published
1901
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Duration and Simultaneity: with reference to Einstein's Theory
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45 editions
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1922
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“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
― Matter and Memory
― Matter and Memory
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
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Polls

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Paul Heyse (1910)
Knut Hamsun (Growth of the Soil) (1920)
Władysław Stanisław Reymont (The Peasants) (1924)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931)
John Galsworthy (The Forsyte Saga) (1932)
Roger Martin du Gard (The Thibaults) (1937)
Pearl S. Buck (1938)
Frans Emil Sillanpää (1939)
Johannes V. Jensen (1944)
Gabriela Mistral (1945)
André Gide (1947)
Pär Lagerkvist (1951)
François Mauriac (1952)
Salvatore Quasimodo (1959)
Ivo Andrić (1961)
George Seferis (1963)
Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967)
Pablo Neruda (1971)
Eugenio Montale (1975)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978)
Czesław Miłosz (1980)
Elias Canetti (1981)
William Golding (1983)
Joseph Brodsky (1987)
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Imre Kertész (2002)
J.M. Coetzee (2003)
Doris Lessing (2007)
Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)
Patrick Modiano (2014)
Frédéric Mistral (1904)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1908)
Gerhart Hauptmann (1912)
Verner von Heidenstam (1916)
Carl Spitteler (Olympian Spring) (1919)
Grazia Deledda (1926)
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1933)
Eugene O'Neill (1936)
Saint-John Perse (1960)
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S.Y. Agnon (1966)
Nelly Sachs (1966)
Heinrich Böll (1972)
Eyvind Johnson (1974)
Harry Martinson (1974)
Vicente Aleixandre (1977)
Claude Simon (1985)
Wole Soyinka (1986)
Camilo José Cela (1989)
Octavio Paz (1990)
Nadine Gordimer (1991)
Dario Fo (1997)
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