Marcel Arland
Encyclopedia
Marcel Arland was a French
novelist, literary critic
, and journalist
.
and Roger Vitrac
he founded the dadaist
newspaper Aventure. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt
for L'Ordre in 1929, and was elected to the French academy
in 1968. He directed the Nouvelle Revue Française
from 1968-1977.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
novelist, literary critic
Critic
A critic is anyone who expresses a value judgement. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgement. Critical judgements, good or bad, may be positive , negative , or balanced...
, and journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
.
Life
With René CrevelRené Crevel
René Crevel was a French writer involved with the surrealist movement.-Life:Crevel was born in Paris to a family of Parisian bourgeoisie. He had a traumatic religious upbringing. At the age of fourteen, during a difficult stage of his life, his father committed suicide by hanging himself. Crevel...
and Roger Vitrac
Roger Vitrac
Roger Vitrac was a French surrealist playwright and poet.Born in Pinsac, Roger Vitrac moved to Paris in 1910. As a young man, he was influenced by symbolism and the writings of Lautréamont and Alfred Jarry, and he developed a passion for theatre and poetry...
he founded the dadaist
Dada
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...
newspaper Aventure. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt
Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...
for L'Ordre in 1929, and was elected to the French academy
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
in 1968. He directed the Nouvelle Revue Française
Nouvelle Revue Française
La Nouvelle Revue Française is a literary magazine founded in 1909 by a group of intellectuals, including André Gide, Jacques Copeau, and Jean Schlumberger...
from 1968-1977.
Works
- Terres étrangères (1923)
- Étienne (1925)
- Monique (1926)
- Les Âmes en peine (1927)
- L'Ordre (1929) (Prix Goncourt)
- Antarès (1932)
- Les Vivants (1934)
- La Vigie (1935)
- Les Plus Beaux de nos jours (1937)
- Terre natale (1938)
- La Grâce (1941)
- Zélie dans le désert (1944)
- Il faut de tout pour faire un monde (1947)
- Sidobre (1949)
- Essais et nouveaux essais critiques (1952)
- Je vous écris... (1960)
- L'Eau et le feu (1960)
- Je vous écris... La nuit et les sources (1963)
- Le Grand Pardon (1965)
- Attendez l'aube (1970)