Pierre-Georges Castex

Pierre-Georges Castex (born June 20, 1915 in Toulouse , † December 9, 1995 in Paris ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Castex was a student of the École normal supérieure , Agrégé in 1938, then high school teacher in Beauvais (1938–1942) and Saint-Maur (1942–1946). From 1946 to 1947 he was an assistant at the Sorbonne, where he completed his habilitation with the Thèse Le Conte fantastique en France de Nodier à Maupassant (Paris 1951, 1987, 1994). From 1947 to 1956 he taught at the University of Lille and from 1956 to 1982 he was Professor of Modern Literature at the Sorbonne. In 1974 he was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, in 1984 its president.

Castex published complete editions of Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam and Honoré de Balzac . But he was best known as a co-author of "Castex-Surer" (Hachette publishing house), a literary history much used in schools and universities in the second half of the 20th century with the title Manuel des études littéraires françaises (together with Paul Surer and Georges Becker), 6 volumes, Paris 1946–1953, edition in 2 volumes, Paris 1954, most recently 1992–1993; Edition under the title. Histoire de la littérature française , Paris 1974, 1977, 1984.

Other works

• Anthologie du conte fantastique français. Paris 1947, 1963, 1987, 2003.
• Alfred de Vigny, l'homme et l'œuvre. Paris 1952, 1958, 1961, 1969.
• Albert Camus et "l'Étranger". Paris 1965, 1986.
• Baudelaire critique d'art. Etude et album. Paris 1969.
• Horizons romantiques. Paris 1983, 1989.

literature

• Madeleine Ambrière in: L'Année Balzacienne. NS 17, 1996, pp. 5-12.
• Roland Chollet in: Romantisme. 26, 1996, pp. 109-111.
• René Pomeau in: Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France. 96, 1996, pp. 183-191.
• Alan William Raitt in: French Studies. 50, 1996, pp. 373-374.

Web links

• Literature by and about Pierre-Georges Castex in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)