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pronunciation:
[b&etilde;da]
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| (1867–1956)
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| Novelist, essayist, and philosopher, born in Paris, France. He studied at the University of Paris, began his writing career with an article on the Dreyfus affair in La Reine Blanche (1898), then collaborated in the Cahiers de la quinzaine of Péguy, against emotion and intuition. He was a leader of the anti-Romantic movement, and his lifelong criticism of the philosophy of Henri Bergson began with Le Bergsonisme in 1912. He gained literary fame the same year with his first novel L'Ordination. His most important work, La Trahison des clercs (The Treason of the Intellectuals), appeared in 1927. Belphégor (1919) and La France Byzantine ou le triomphe de la littérature (1945) are aesthetic essays on contemporary French society. He also produced two autobiographical works, La Jeunesse d'un clerc (1937) and Un Régulier dans le siècle (1938). |
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