Georges Lambrichs (5 July 1917 – 9 February 1992) was a French writer,

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and editor.

Life

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in 1937 of whom he became a "companion of intellectual resistance". Paulhan made him a reader in March 1946 on behalf of the Éditions de Minuit, where Lambrichs had his first book published. Still at the Éditions de Minuit, he co-hosted with Paulhan the ''revue 84'', which

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did not want and became literary director until 1955. At Minuit, he published among others François Augiéras,

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, and

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. After a brief stint at Grasset, Gaston Gallimard hired him in January 1959: first as director of series of contemporary literature with ''Jeune Prose'', which lasted from February 1959 to June 1962 and which brought out the first texts by

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and

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. A veritable laboratory that seeks to distance itself from the Nouveau roman and

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, ''Le Chemin'' functioned quite autonomously within the

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, Lambrichs surrounding himself with a group of sensibilities, authors such as ,

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, Henri Meschonnic,

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and of course

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. Between 1959 and 1992, Le Chemin published 284 titles, including essays by

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, Henri Meschonnic and

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. In 1967, Lambrichs, in addition to his collection, edited the magazine ''Les Cahiers du Chemin'', which merged in 1977 with ''

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'' when he took over from

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as its director until 1987.Lambrichs
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Louise L. Lambrichs Louise L. Lambrichs (born 2 May 1952) is a French novelist and essayist. Lambrichs was born into a family of writers in Boulogne-Billancourt. Her father Georges Lambrichs (along with Jean Paulhan and Jérôme Lindon) was considered one of the gr ...

. Lambrichs died in Paris at the age of 74.

Publications

* ''L'Aventure achevée'', Éditions de Minuit, 1946 ; réédition Éditions de la Différence, 1991 * ''Le Pouvoir des cris'', in ''Les Cahiers de la Pléiade'', Gallimard, avril 1947 * ''Chaystre ou les Plaisirs incommodes'', Éditions de Minuit, 1948 ; réédition Éditions de la Différence, 1983 * ''Les Rapports absolus'', coll. Métamorphoses, Gallimard, 1949 * ''Les Plus Belles Images du cinéma'', Éditions du Chêne, 1949 * ''Mort naturelle'', Gallimard, ''Les Cahiers de la Pléiade'', printemps-été 1951 * ''Ondique'', Gallimard, 1954 * ''Les Fines Attaches'', Gallimard, 1957 * ''En cachette'', Gallimard, 1957 * ''Bernard Dufour'', Galerie Pierre, 1963 * ''Pente douce'', L'Herne, 1972 ; réédition Éditions de la Différence, 1983 * ''Mégéries'', Gallimard, 1974 * ''Se prendre aux mots'', Éditions de la Différence, 1991 * ''Gabrielle Haardt'', Éditions de la Différence, 1992

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