Jean Paulhan , born with Nimes (Gard) the December 2nd 1884 and died in Paris the October 9th 1968, is a writer, critic and editor French, director of the Nouvelle French Review (NRF) of 1925 with 1940 and of 1946 with 1968.

Biography

From 1907 to 1910, Jean Paulhan teaches the literature and incidentally the gymnastics with the college of Tananarive (Madagascar), French colony at the time. Of return in France, it gives Malagasy language classes to the École of the Eastern languages. With the declaration of the war, it is affected to the 9th Zouaves with the rank of sergeant. It is wounded in December 1914.

After the war, it takes part in the surrealist review Littérature . In 1920, he is secretary of the Nouvelle French Review, then editor association, five years later, and managing review, with died of Jacques Rivière in 1936.

During the Second world war, it enters clandestinity and founds, with Jacques Decour, the French Lettres . It supports the Éditions of Midnight founded by Jerome Lindon which publishes clandestinely the Silence of the sea of Vercors.

To the Release, engaged against its liking in the National committee of the writers, body charged to purify the French literature, it calls into question the purification itself and takes the defense of “collaborator” writers. He denounces “virtuous” the resistant arts persons of the post-war period, in particular in his Lettre with the directors of Resistance and dares to publish a work on Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

He takes again the direction of the NRF when this one is authorized to reappear in 1946. He is elected member of the French Academy in 1963.

Its work comprises accounts and writings on art (the Cubisme and the Informal art) but it is especially for its tests on the language and the literature that it acquired its celebrity: Flowers of Tarbes or Terror in the letters , At tomorrow poetry , Small Foreword with very critical . Most of its abundant correspondence remains new. The files of Jean Paulhan are deposited with the Institut reports of the contemporary edition.

Jean Paulhan was Grand officer of the Légion of honor, Military Cross 1914-1918, Médaille of Resistance.

Quotation

  • “You can tighten a bee in your hand until it chokes, it will not choke without you to have piqué, it is little of thing, but if it were not pricked, a long time ago that there would be no more bees. ”.

Works

  • Hain-Tenys Merinas (1913)

  • the Warrior steady (1917)
  • Cow Jacob the Pirate, or If the words are signs (1921)
  • the Bridge crossed (1921)
  • Expérience of the proverb (1925)
  • the severe Cure (1925)
  • On a defect of the thought criticizes (1929)
  • Hain-Tenys, obscure poetry (1930)
  • Entretien to news items (1930, 1945)
  • Aveuglette (1940)
  • Flowers of Tarbes or terror in the Letters (1941)
  • Jacques Decour (1943)
  • Aytre which loses the practice (1943)
  • Clef of the poetry, which makes it possible to distinguish truth from the forgery in all observation, or Doctrines concerning the rhyme, the rate/rhythm, the worms, the poet and poetry (1945)
  • F.F or the Critic (1945)
  • Seven famous causes (1946)
  • Métromanie, or lower parts of the capital (1946)
  • Braque the Owner (1946)
  • Letter with the members of the C.N.E. (1940)
  • Seven new famous causes (1947)
  • Guide of a small voyage in Switzerland (1947)
  • Last letter (1947)
  • the Shepherd of Scotland (1948)
  • Fautrier Mad the (1949)
  • Small-Deliver-with-to tear (1949)
  • Three famous causes (1950)
  • famous Causes (1950)
  • Letter with the doctor (1950)
  • the Guards (1951)
  • the Marquis de Sade and his accomplice or revenges of Decency (1951)
  • Small foreword with very critical (1951)
  • Letter with the directors of Resistance (1952)
  • the Proof by the etymology (1953)
  • the transparent Words, with lithographies of Georges Directs (1955)
  • Light and Obscure the (1958)
  • G. Directs (1958)
  • Of bad subjects , engravings of Marc Chagall (1958)
  • Karskaya (1959)
  • Lettres (1961)
  • the Informal art (1962)
  • Fautrier mad the (1962)
  • rather slow Progrès in love (1966)
  • Choix of letters I 1917-1936
  • the Literature is a festival (1986)
  • the Life is full with frightening things (1990)

External bonds

  • Biographical note of the French Academy
  • Company of the readers of Jean Paulhan
  • Institute reports of the contemporary edition

References

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