Occupation Teacher, translator Role Writer Relatives Frederic Paulhan | Name Jean Paulhan Nominations Prix Goncourt | |
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Notable works The Flowers of Tarbes, or Terror in Literature Died October 9, 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Books On Poetry and Politics, The Flowers of Tarbes - O, Progress in love on the slow side, Le guerrier applique, La Preuve par l'etymologie Similar People Anne Desclos, Gaston Gallimard, Albert Thibaudet, Carl Einstein, Gunther Forg | ||
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Jean Paulhan (2 December 1884 – 9 October 1968) was a French writer, literary critic and publisher, director of the literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Francaise (NRF) from 1925 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1968. He was a member (Seat 6, 1963–68) of the Academie francaise. He was born in Nimes (Gard) and died in Paris. Paulhan's father was the philosopher Frederic Paulhan and his mother was Jeanne Therond. From 1908 to 1910 he worked as a teacher in Madagascar, and he later translated Malagasy poems, or Hainteny, into French;
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Paulhan's translations attracted the interest of Guillaume Apollinaire and Paul Eluard.
In 1925 Paulhan succeeded Jacques Riviere as editor of the NRF. One of his most famous works of literary criticism was The Flowers of Tarbes, or Terror in Literature (1941), a study of the nature of language in fiction. Paulhan also wrote several autobiographical short stories; English translations of several appeared in the collection Progress in Love on the Slow Side. During the Second World War, Paulhan was an early and active member of the French Resistance and was arrested by the German Gestapo. After the war he founded Cahiers de la Pleiade and in 1953 re-launched La Nouvelle Revue Francaise.
Paulhan provoked controversy by opposing independence for Algeria, and supporting the French military during the Algerian War; this resulted in a rift between Paulhan and his friend Maurice Blanchot.
Author Anne Desclos revealed that she had written the novel Story of O as a series of love letters to her lover Paulhan, who had admired the work of the Marquis de Sade.