Antoine Adam
Antoine Adam (born April 26, 1899 in Lille , † 1980 ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar.
Adam completed his habilitation in Lille with the two theses Théophile de Viau et la libre pensée française en 1620 (Paris 1935, Geneva 1965, 2000) and Le Vrai Verlaine . Essai psychanalytique (Paris 1936). From 1935 to 1950 he was a professor at the University of Lille and from 1950 to his retirement at the Sorbonne .
Works
Adam is best known for his five-volume Histoire de la littérature française au XVIIe siècle (Paris 1948–1956, edition in 3 volumes 1997).
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- Le Secret de l'aventure venitienne. La vérité sur Sand et Musset . Paris 1938
- (Ed.) Les [premières] satires de Boileau : I-IX. Lille 1941, Geneva 1970
- Verlaine. L'homme et l'œuvre . Paris 1953
- (Ed.) Montesquieu : Lettres persanes . Geneva / Lille 1954
- (Ed.) Tallemant des Réaux : Historiettes. 2 vols., Paris: Gallimard, 1960–1961.
- (Ed.) Les Libertins au 17e siècle. Paris 1964, 1986
- Le Mouvement philosophique dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Paris 1967
- You mysticisme à la révolte. Les jansénistes du XVIIe siècle. Paris 1968
- L'Age classique. I. 1624-1660. Paris 1968 (Littérature française, edited by Claude Pichois, vol. 6)
- Le Théâtre classique. Paris 1970, 1977 (Que sais-je? 1414)
- Littérature française (with Georges Lerminier and Édouard Morot-Sir), 2 vols., Paris 1971
- (Ed.) François de Malherbe : Poésies. Paris 1982, ISBN 2-0703-2226-2
literature
- Pierre-Georges Castex : "In Memoriam: Antoine Adam (1899-1980)". In: Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France 81, 1981, pp. 497-500.
Web links
- Information on Antoine Adam in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about Antoine Adam in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adam, Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romanist and literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lille |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1980 |