Haakon chevalier biography

Martin Sherwin: Did you know Robert [Oppenheimer] when he was going out with Jean Tatlock?

Chevalier: Yes, but inom don’t think I ever saw them together.

Sherwin: When we first spoke over the phone, you called me from the airport about three or four years ago. I was living in Princeton, New Jersey.

Chevalier: Oh, yes. Yes, that’s right.

Sherwin: Yes, and we had a nice conversation on the phone, and after we hung up, I made notes. You were talking about the script, the BBC script, which you had seen, and you had said they had gotten everything wrong. One in particular was especially the relation with Jean Tatlock. You said that she was a wonderful girl and their portrait of her was a very poor one. Then you said you felt that she was really Oppenheimer’s deepest love, or in certain ways the woman he was most attached to in a profound sense.

Chevalier: Yes, I had that sense.

Sherwin: Where d

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Haakon Chevalier&#;s Interview &#; Part 2

Martin Sherwin: You mentioned a point that others have mentioned that intrigue me: [J. Robert] Oppenheimer’s summer in Corsica. You said that Oppenheimer had once told you that reading [Marcel] Proust’s Memory of Things Past was one of the great experiences of his life.

Haakon Chevalier: Yes.

Sherwin: I have two questions about that. One, could you elaborate on that? Anything that you recall he said and why. The second has to do with whether you know anything else about that summer in Corsica.

Chevalier: No, I don’t think inom can add very much to either of those. I think I quote the thing that he mentioned there about the cruelty, the ultimate cruelty.

Sherwin: Yes.

Chevalier: Which he quoted, that is, not verbatim, but made reference to that. He had great admiration for Proust, his insight into the deep things in the consciousness of human beings, and his art as a writer, his quick p

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Haakon Chevalier

American translator, writer and academic (–)

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Born	Haakon Maurice Chevalier ()September 10, Lakewood Township, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	July 4, () (aged&#;83) Paris, France
Occupations	Writer Translator Academic
Employer	University of California, Berkeley
Spouses	Ruth Bosley &#; (m.&#;&#x;&#;&#x;)&#; Barbara Lansburgh &#; &#; (m.&#;&#x;&#;&#x;)&#; Carol Lansburgh &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Children	4

Haakon Maurice Chevalier (September 10, – July 4, ) was an American writer, translator, and professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley best known for his friendship with physicistJ. Robert Oppenheimer, whom he met at Berkeley, California in

Oppenheimer's relationship with Chevalier, and Chevalier's relationship with a possible recruiter for Soviet intelligence, figured prominently in a hearing of the U.S. Atomic En