Marcel Arland (5 July 1899,

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Biography

With

René Crevel René Crevel (; 10 August 1900 – 18 June 1935) was a French writer involved with the surrealist movement. Life Crevel was born in Paris to a family of Parisian bourgeoisie. He had a traumatic religious upbringing. At the age of fourteen, hi ...

and

Roger Vitrac Roger Vitrac (; 17 November 1899 – 22 January 1952) was a French surrealist playwright and poet. Early life Roger Vitrac was born in Pinsac on 17 November 1899, before his family moved to Paris in 1910.:527 As a young man, he was influenced by ...

he founded the

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ist newspaper ''Aventure.'' He was awarded the

Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o ...

for ''L'Ordre'' in 1929, and was elected to the

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in 1968. He directed the ''

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'' from 1968–1977.

References

Arland is referenced by Deleuze & Guattari in Chapter 8 of

A Thousand Plateaus ''A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia'' (french: link=no, Mille plateaux) is a 1980 book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. It is the second and final volume of their collaborative ...

. They cite Arland's 1944 work 'Le Promeneur' where he describes the novella as "nothing but pure lines right down to the nuances, and nothing but the pure and conscious power of the word". Arland's view of the novella form accords with Deleuze and Guattari's: that it consists of abstract lines (connections) that constitute subjects and entities by relating them to one another.Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, trans. Brian Massumi, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Minnesota University Press, 1987, 195

Works

*''Terres étrangères'' (1923) *''Étienne'' (1925) *''Monique'' (1926) *''Les Âmes en peine'' (1927) *''L'Ordre'' (1929) (Prix Goncourt) *''Antarès'' (1932) *''Les Vivants'' (1934) *''La Vigie'' (1935) *''Les Plus Beaux de nos jours'' (1937) *''Terre natale'' (1938) *''La Grâce'' (1941) *''Zélie dans le désert'' (1944) *''Il faut de tout pour faire un monde'' (1947) *''Sidobre'' (1949) *''Essais et nouveaux essais critiques'' (1952) *''Je vous écris...'' (1960) *''L'Eau et le feu'' (1960) *''Je vous écris... La nuit et les sources'' (1963) *''Le Grand Pardon'' (1965) *''Attendez l'aube'' (1970)

References

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L'Académie française

Marcel Arland

Marcel Arland(French Writer)
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