biography
| name: |
Larbaud, Valery-Nicolas
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pronunciation:
[lah(r)boh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1881–1957)
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| biography:
| Writer and critic, born in Vichy, C France. He collaborated on French and English literary reviews, where he became committed to introducing contemporary writers. Among his works are a novel, Fermina Marquez (1911), and a journal and verse A.O. Barnabooth (1913). Enfantines (1918) is a collection of childhood reminiscences, and Amants, hereux amants (1923) uses the stream-of-consciousness technique further developed by James Joyce. Other works comprise essays and reflections inspired by his travels, and two volumes of criticism, Ce Vice impuni, la lecture (1925) and Ce Vice impuni, domaine français (1941). In 1952 he received the Grand Prix National des Lettres. |
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