Frédéric Lefèvre

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Frédéric Lefèvre (born May 7, 1889 in Izé , Mayenne department , † September 11, 1949 in Paris ) was a French journalist , writer , literary critic and literary historian .

life and work

Lefèvre was - together with Maurice Martin du Gard and Jacques Guenne - founder and from 1922 until his death editor-in-chief of the literary weekly magazine Les Nouvelles Littéraires (interrupted from 1940 to 1945), in which his chronicle Une heure avec… , the transcript of the interviews with (until 1940) 387 famous French and non-French authors who were the main attraction for reading (a selection also published as a collective publication).

There is a Society of Friends of Frédéric Lefèvre, which has been publishing a magazine since 1998: La Lettre des Amis de Frédéric Lefèvre . Lefèvre has recently been the subject of a biography and several scientific colloquia.

Works

Contributions to literary studies

  • La jeune poésie française. Hommes et tendances , Paris 1917
  • Une Heure avec…, 6 vols., Paris 1924–1933, Nantes / Laval 1996–1997
  • Entretiens avec Paul Valéry , Paris 1926 (preface by Henri Bremond ); Paul Valéry, Très au-dessus d'une pensée secrète. Entretiens avec Frédéric Lefèvre , ed. by Michel Jarrety, Paris 2006
  • Georges Bernanos , Paris 1926
  • Les sources de Claudel , Paris 1927
  • Marcel Jousse. Une nouvelle psychologie du langage , Paris 1927
  • (Ed.) Maurice Blondel, L'itinéraire philosophique , Paris 1928, 1966
  • Entretiens sur JK Huysmans , Paris 1931
  • L'Adhésion. Essais et portraits , Avignon 1941, 1943
  • Mes amis et mes livres , Antwerp 1947

Novels and other works

  • Les matinées du Hêtre rouge , Paris 1929
  • Samson, fils de Samson. Roman d'une famille de sorciers , Paris 1930, Laval 1993 (autobiographical)
  • Le sol.Roman , Paris 1932, Montmélian 2004
  • L'Amour de Vivre. Roman , Paris 1932
  • La Difficulté d'être femme. Roman , Paris 1934
  • Ce vagabond. Roman , Paris 1936
  • Tentations , Paris 1937
  • Le Jardin secret de Madame Dominois , Alger 1941
  • Monsieur Maubenoît, philaté list. Roman , Avignon 1941
  • Le Terrible pouvoir. Aux trois écus. Roman , Avignon 1941
  • Le Terrible pouvoir. Les Noces florentines , Avignon 1944 *
  • Orphée , Paris 1949

literature

  • Dictionnaire national des contemporains , ed. by Nathan Imbert, Vol. 1, Paris 1939 p. v. (with picture)
  • Bulletin-Hommage à Frédéric Lefèvre [1889–1949], ed. by Les Amis de Frédéric Lefèvre, Laval 1999
  • Nicole Villeroux: Frédéric Lefèvre. Le sorcier des “Nouvelles littéraires” (1889–1949) . Le Mans 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Lefèvre, Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist, writer, literary critic and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Izé , France
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1949
Place of death Paris , France