Andre Gide et le premier groupe de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise; la formation du groupe et les annees d'apprentissage (1890-1910)

1980 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
Alain-Michel Boyer ◽  
Auguste Angles
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-411
Author(s):  
Richard Hibbitt

In 1909 André Gide published three short articles in the journal La Nouvelle Revue française, subsequently grouped under the title ‘Nationalisme et littérature’ (Nationalism and literature). They were written as his response to a survey by the young French journalist Henri Clouard, ‘Enquête sur la littérature nationale’ (Survey on National Literature), in which contemporary writers and critics answered questions regarding possible definitions of French literature. Gide questions the value of the term ‘national literature’ and objects to the view that haute littérature (good literature) is synonymous with neo-Classical values, arguing instead for a conception of literature that embraces curiosity and innovation. For Gide the term haute littérature is problematic because it implies a hierarchical, regimented and limited view of both literature and culture tout court. The first part of this article argues that Gide's critique of both national literature and haute littérature can be read as a preference for a literariness that is liberated from the constraints of balance and imitation. The second part reads Gide's agronomic metaphor for literary innovation through the lens of Alexander Beecroft's theory of overlapping literary ecologies. Beecroft's model of different ecologies of world literature helps us to locate what I propose to be Gide's own contribution to the world literature debate: an emphasis on literariness that transcends the national-literature ecology and reclaims the notion of haute littérature for a different aesthetic.


Gragoatá ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
Author(s):  
Márcia Seabra Neves

Está sobejamente comprovado o fascínio que a cul­tura e literatura francesas desde sempre exerceram no imaginário português. Ora, os escritores que, em 1927, se reuniram em torno da revista pre­sença (1927-1940), não escaparam a esta sedução francófila, aliás por eles expressamente assumida. Com efeito, ao percorrermos as páginas da revis­ta coimbrã deparamo-nos com uma constante referência à língua e cultura francesas. Convém, contudo, sublinhar que a francofilia presencista se reveste de traços singularizadores e, de certo modo, seletivos, uma vez que do amplo reportório literário e cultural francês, foi a Nouvelle Revue Française, tutelada pelo magistério crítico e dou­trinário de André Gide, que a geração da presença elegeu como paradigma estético-literário. No entanto, o fascínio e admiração do grupo de Régio pela bande à Gide não conhece reciprocidade e o diálogo entre as duas revistas/gerações manter­-se-á unilateral, apesar das várias tentativas de aproximação por parte dos presencista.


Books Abroad ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
Gene J. Barberet ◽  
Jean Schlumberger

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martyn Cornick

Résumé Aujourd’hui La NRF est reconnue pour avoir constitué l’un des plus grands phénomènes culturels de la France moderne. Au sortir de la guerre de 1914-1918, la revue fondée en 1908-1909 par André Gide et ses amis est déjà en voie d’institutionnalisation. Dans cette contribution, on va tenter une analyse du rôle de Jean Paulhan dans le remarquable succès de cette revue entre 1925 et 1940. D’abord, on voit par quels chemins Paulhan arrive à la revue pour y apporter l’influence d’une nouvelle génération d’écrivains d’avant-garde. Ensuite, on va explorer comment Paulhan travaille à la consolidation du succès de la revue, et dans un dernier temps, on va découvrir comment le directeur de La NRF affronte les défis idéologiques des années précédant à l’éclatement de la guerre en 1939.


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