''Europe'' () is a French

literary magazine A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letter ...

founded in 1923.

History

Created by

Romain Rolland Romain Rolland (; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and Mysticism, mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary pro ...

and a group of French writers, the literary magazine ''Europe'' began on 15 February 1923, published by . In the journal's first issue, its editor-in-chief, , explained the choice of ′Europe′ as a title: "We speak of Europe because our vast peninsula, between the East and the New World, is the crossroads where civilisations meet. But it is to all the peoples that we address ourselves ..in the hope of averting the tragic misunderstandings which currently divide mankind."

Jean Guéhenno Jean Guéhenno born Marcel-Jules-Marie Guéhenno (25 March 1890 – 22 September 1978) was a French essayist, writer and literary critic. Life and career Jean Guéhenno, writer and educator, was a prominent contributor to the NRF. He was edito ...

was the next chief editor, from 1929 until 1936, followed by

Jean Cassou Jean Cassou (9 July 1897 – 15 January 1986) was a French writer, art critic, poet, member of the French Resistance during World War II and the first Director of the Musée national d'Art moderne in Paris. Biography Jean Cassou was born at Bi ...

from May 1936 until 1939. Until 1939, when it was suspended on the announcement of the

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, ''Europe'' followed the Communists in the anti-fascist struggle. In 1946, ''Europe'' was revived due to the efforts of

Louis Aragon Louis Aragon (, , 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review ''Littérature''. He wa ...

, who published it through La Bibliothèque française, merged in 1949 into the publishing company Les Éditeurs français réunis.

Pierre Abraham Pierre Abraham, (1 March 1892 – 20 May 1974 in Paris) was a French journalist, essayist and military figure in the French Air Force during the world wars. Biography A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, he served during World War I from 191 ...

then became its director, which he was until his death in 1974.

Pierre Gamarra Pierre Gamarra (; 10 July 1919 – 20 May 2009) was a French poet, novelist and literary critic, a long-time chief editor and director of the literary magazine ''Europe''.Gamarra is best known for his poems and novels for the youth and for n ...

succeeded him, having acted as editor-in-chief since 1951. From 2009 until 2014,

Charles Dobzynski Charles Dobzynski (born 1929 Warsaw - 26 September 2014) was a French poet, journalist and translator. Life His family emigrated to France, where he was barely a year old. He narrowly escaped deportation during World War II. he published his firs ...

was director while Jean-Baptiste Para remained editor-in-chief of the magazine. Since the 1950s, ''Europe'' has issued thematic titles considered as a reference work. It also contains book and cultural reviews and publishes poetry or fiction. ''Europe'' has published works by authors as diverse as Aragon,

Jean-Richard Bloch Jean-Richard Bloch (25 May 1884 – 15 March 1947) was a French critic, novelist and playwright. He was a member of the French Communist Party (PCF) and worked with Louis Aragon in the evening daily '' Ce soir''. Early life Bloch was born ...

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( , ) was a French novelist, polemicist and physician. His first novel ''Journey to the End of the Night'' (1932) won the ''Pri ...

Emile Danoën Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *'' Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *'' Emil and the Detecti ...

Jean Giono Jean Giono (30 March 1895 – 8 October 1970) was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France. First period Jean Giono was born to a family of modest means, his father a cobbler of Piedmontese descent a ...

Panaït Istrati Panait Istrati (; sometimes rendered as ''Panaït Istrati''; August 10, 1884 – April 16, 1935) was a Romanian working class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed ''The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans''. Istrati appears to be the ...

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, comp ...

, for example. There is an Association of ''Europe'' Friends (Association des Amis dEurope''), which aims to develop cultural life, principally of the literary kind, "in a spirit of openness and hospitality and in the humanistic tradition which has characterised ''Europe'' since its foundation."Journal's website: Association of ''Europe'' Friends

Sources

In French * ''Europe, une revue de culture internationale, 1923-1998.'' Colloquium of 27 March 1998, salle Louis Liard, at the Sorbonne. * Stavroula Constantopoulou, ''La Fonction de la littérature et le rôle de l'écrivain selon la revue Europe de 1923 à 1939'', doctoral thesis under the supervision of Henri Béhar, submitted at Paris III on 19 December 1996, 585 pp. * Philippe Niogret, ''La revue Europe et les romans français de l'entre-deux-guerres (1923-1939)'', L'Harmattan, 2004.

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External links

''Europe'' Website

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