Charles Albert Cingria (1883 - 1954) was a Swiss writer and
musician.
The family of his father Albert was from Ragusa (now
Dubrovnik ) and lived in Constantinople; his mother Caroline Stryjenska (1846 -
1913), born in Carouge (Geneva), was a Polish-French painter.
Between 1902 and 1909, Cingria travelled in Switzerland,
France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Africa and Turkey, before moving to Paris in 1915.
The Second World War forced him to return to Switzerland. After a stint in
Lausanne and Geneva, he moved to Freiburg where he found a miserable attic room
.
Cingria travelled around Switzerland by bicycle. He survived
by publishing in journals of the local press and giving lectures. In 1944 , he
returned to France. Thereafter, he lived in Paris, Aix-en-Provence and in
Switzerland. In 1954, he was repatriated to Geneva, where he died of cirrhosis on
August 1, the Swiss national holiday.
Cingria's manuscripts are kept at the Cantonal and University
Library of Lausanne.
cingria, sangria, cirrhose du foie le 1er aout, tellement de point communs, le voyage, la poesie, le beret, l'horreur des labels et etiquettes, l'amour de la beaute, de l'estetique, la qualite intrinseque de toute chose naturelle, Cingria a lire, a devorer, a ressentir, a experimenter....
ReplyDeletepar hasard, on se ressemble, comme des freres, des enfants de meme famille egares aux quatres coins du monde, une grande famille a travers les ages.... aplus tard, alors
Andreas krieger, citoyen suisse vivant en Californie, pour l'instant, ne a geneve, deja mort mille fois, comme les chats, de retour pour un nouveau tour...