biography
pronunciation:
[ah(r)lã]
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| lived:
| (1899–1986)
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| biography:
| Critic and novelist, born in Varenne-sur-Armance, NE France. A teacher of French, he received the Prix Goncourt in 1929 for L'Ordre. Associated with literary circles after World War 2, he became co-director of the Nouvelle Revue Française (1953–77) with Jean Paulhan. The moral style evident in his work reveals his attachment to places in Terre Natale (1938), his anguish when faced with solitude in La Consolation du Voyageur (1952), and his aptitude in depicting everyday life in the novel L'Eau et le feu (1956). There are elements of biography in Lumieres du Soir (1983) and of his philosophy in Avons-nous vécû? (1977). |
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