Albert Thibaudet (1 April 1874 in
Tournus
Tournus () is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Geography
Tournus is located on the right bank of the Saône, 20 km. northeast of Mâcon on the Paris-Lyon railway.
Pop ...
,
Saône-et-Loire – 16 April 1936 in
Geneva
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) was a French essayist and
literary critic. A former student of
Henri Bergson, he was a professor of
Jean Rousset
Jean Rousset (20 February 1910 – 15 September 2002) was a Swiss literary critic who worked on French literature, and in particular on Baroque literature of the late Renaissance and early seventeenth century. He is sometimes grouped with the ' ...
. He taught at the
University of Geneva
The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological seminary. It remained focused on theology until the 17th centur ...
, and was the co-founder of the
Geneva School of literary criticism. He was succeeded in his post by
Marcel Raymond.
Career
Thibaudet's reputation increased through 1920s and 1930s, in part for his regular articles in the ''
Nouvelle Revue Française
''La Nouvelle Revue Française'' (; "The New French Review") is a literary magazine based in France. In France, it is often referred to as the ''NRF''.
History and profile
The magazine was founded in 1909 by a group of intellectuals including An ...
'' which he wrote from 1912 until his death, as well as for his numerous books.
In 1928, the philosopher
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (10 April 1857 – 13 March 1939) was a French scholar trained in philosophy who furthered anthropology with his contributions to the budding fields of sociology and ethnology. His primary field interest was ways of thinking.
...
sponsored him to participate in the first of the ''
Cours universitaires de Davos'', international meetings of intellectuals at
Davos, Switzerland
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.
In 2008, the Thucydides Centre (a research institute of the Paris
Panthéon-Assas University) inaugurated the "Albert Thibaudet Prize", awarded to a French-language writer on international relations.
Works
*''La Campagne avec Thucydide'', 1922 (on
Thucydides
Thucydides (; grc, , }; BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His '' History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of " scienti ...
)
* ''
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert ( , , ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flauber ...
'', 1922, republished, 1936
*''Le Bergsonisme'', 1923 (on Henri Bergson)
*''La république des professeurs'', B. Grasset, Paris 1927
*''Physiologie de la critique'', 1930
*''Les idées politiques en France'', 1931
*''Histoire de la littérature française - de 1789 à nos jours'', 1936
References
1874 births
1936 deaths
People from Tournus
French literary critics
French essayists
Lycée Henri-IV alumni
French male essayists
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