Marcel Arland , born the July 5th 1899 with Varennes-on-Amance (Haute-Marne) and dead the January 12th 1986 with Saint-Saver-on-School (Seine-et-Marne), is a Romancier, Essayiste and critical arts person French.

It launches with Rene Crevel and Roger Vitrac Aventure , a small newspaper supporting the Dadaïsme. Arland finds this support too violent and founds another sheet, Dés , which will count only two numbers. One of its first tests, a new evil of the century , draws the attention to him. Its critical work is considerable, as well by its chronicles with NRF as by its forewords and its anthologies of poetry and prose Frenchwomen. In 1952, it publishes an autobiographical account, the Consolation of the traveller .

It receives the Prix Goncourt in 1929 for the Order . It also receives the Grand Prix of literature of the French Academy, of which it is elected member in 1968.

Works

• foreign Grounds (Gallimard, 1923)
• Etienne (Gallimard, 1925)
• Monique (Gallimard, 1926)
• the Hearts pains of it (Gallimard, 1927)
• Or the Heart divides (Gallimard 1929)
• the Order (Gallimard, 1929) (Goncourt price)
• Antarès (Gallimard, 1932)
• Alive the (Gallimard, 1934)
• the Watchtower (Gallimard, 1935)
• Most beautiful nowadays (Gallimard, 1937)
• Native soil (Gallimard, 1938) whose name will be taken for the grouping of communes around its birthplace
• the Grace (Gallimard, 1941)
• Zélie in the desert (Gallimard, 1944)
• It is necessary of very to make a world (Gallimard, 1947)
• Sidobre (Editions of Midnight, 1949)
• Essais and new critical tests (Gallimard, 1952)
• I write to you… (Grasset 1960)
• Water and fire (Gallimard, 1960)
• the Consolation of the traveller
• I write to you… The night and the sources (Grasset 1963)
• Great Forgiveness (Gallimard, 1965)
• Await the paddle (Gallimard, 1970)

External bond

• Biographical note of the French Academy