Auguste Anglès

Auguste Anglès (born May 23, 1914 in Rodez , † June 30, 1983 in Paris ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar.

Life

Anglès entered the École normal supérieure (ENS) in 1935 and passed the Agrégation in 1941 . From 1942 to 1944 he was an assistant for French literature at the University of Lyon and was a member of the Resistance . From 1947 to 1950 he was a lecturer in the United States and Canada, and from 1950 to 1954 again assistant in Lyon. From 1955 to 1958 he taught at Mills College , Ohio State University , and the Institut français in London. From 1958 to 1963 he headed the Institut franco-japonais in Tokyo and from 1963 to 1966 the Maison française in Oxford.

He completed his habilitation in 1972 at the Sorbonne with Pierre Moreau (after his death with Michel Décaudin ) with the work André Gide et le premier groupe de la Nouvelle revue française jusqu'à la guerre de 1914 (3 vols., Paris 1978, 1986) and taught at the University of Lyon II until 1972 . Then he became professor of French literary studies at the University of Paris-Nanterre , and from 1976 at the University of Paris IV .

Anglès was a knight of the Legion of Honor and recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun . He was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance and the Croix de guerre .

Works

• (Ed.) Cinq rencontres de Jacques Rivière , Paris 1975
• (Ed. With Pierre de Gaulmyn) Correspondance Paul Claudel-Jacques Rivière (1907-1924). Edition complète, Paris 1984
• Circumnavigations. Littérature, voyages, politique 1942-1983 , Lyon 1986

literature

• Jean-François Revel, Mémoires , Paris 1998, pp. 31, 111-112, 158
• Béatrice and Michel Wattel, Qui était qui. XXe siècle , Levallois-Perret 2005 sv

Web links

• Literature by and about Auguste Anglès in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)