Pierre Abraham

Pierre Abraham , actually Pierre Abraham Bloch , (born March 1, 1892 in Paris ; † May 20, 1974 there ) was a French writer, journalist and Romance scholar .

life and work

Pierre Bloch, brother of the writer Jean-Richard Bloch , later took the author name Pierre Abraham. He graduated from the École polytechnique (and was an air force officer in World War I), but then turned (under the influence of his brother) as an author and critic of literature and self-taught the humanities. After his engagement in the Resistance , he was a city councilor in Nice from 1947 to 1959 . As a member of the French Communist Party , he headed the literary section of the Center for Marxist Research and Studies (Center d'études et de recherches marxistes, now Espaces Marx ), founded in 1960 .

Abraham was a collaborator (from the beginning) and editor (from 1949) of the magazine Europe (literary magazine) (founded in 1923 by Romain Rolland and his circle, to which Jean-Richard Bloch also belonged). He was succeeded by Pierre Gamarra as editor.

Works

• Balzac. Recherches sur la creation intellectuelle , Paris 1929
• Figures. Recherches sur la creation intellectuelle , Paris 1929
• Proust. Recherches sur la création intellectuelle , Paris 1930, 1971
• Créatures chez Balzac. Recherches sur la creation intellectuelle , Paris 1930
• Le physique au théâtre. Texts et mise en images , Paris 1933
• (Ed.) Arts et littératures dans la société contemporaine , Paris 1935–1936, 1963 ( Encyclopédie française , edited by Anatole de Monzie and Lucien Febvre , vol. 16 and 17)
• Tiens bon la ramp . Roman, Paris 1951

Editorial activity

• (with Roland Desné ) Manuel d'histoire littéraire de la France , 7 vols., Paris 1965–1982, 1987–1989
  • 1. Des origines à 1600, ed. by Jean-Charles Payen and Henri Weber , 1965, 412 pages; 1971, 659 pages (with Jean-Louis Gourg)
  • 2. 1600–1715, ed. by Anne Ubersfeld and Roland Desné, 1966, 1975, 492 pages
  • 3. 1715–1789, ed. by Michèle Duchet , 1969, 1976, 620 pages
  • 4. 1789–1848, 2 vol., Ed. by Pierre Barbéris and Claude Duchet , 1972–1973, 685 + 583 pages
  • 5. 1848-1913, ed. by Claude Duchet, 1977, 1989, 814 pages
  • 6. 1913–1976, ed. by André Daspre et Michel Décaudin , 1982, 1987, 920 pages (with a tribute to Pierre Abraham by Pierre Gamarra)

• (with Roland Desné) Histoire littéraire de la France , 12 vols., 1974–1980
  • 1. Des origines à 1492, ed. by Jean Charles Payen, 1974, 481 pages
  • 2. 1492-1600, ed. by Henri Weber.
  • 3. 1600-1660, ed. by Anne Ubersfeld and Roland Desné., 1975, 476 pages
  • 4. 1660-1715, ed. by Anne Ubersfeld and Roland Desné, 1975, 477 pages
  • 5-6. 1715-1794, ed. by Michèle Duchet and JM Goulemot , 2 vols., 1976, 485 + 525 pages
  • 7. 1794-1830, ed. by Pierre Barbéris and Claude Duchet, 1976, 479 pages
  • 8. 1830-1848, ed. by Pierre Barbéris and Claude Duchet, 1977, 479 pages
  • 9. 1848-1873, ed. by Claude Duchet, 1977, 503 pages
  • 10. 1873-1913, ed. by Claude Duchet, 1978, 543 pages
  • 11. 1913-1939, ed. by André Daspre and Michel Décaudin, 1979, 495 pages
  • 12. 1939-1970, ed. by André Daspre and Michel Décaudin, 1980, 503 pages

• (Italian) Storia della letteratura francese , 3 vols., Milan 1985

literature

• Pierre Abraham, Les trois frères , Paris 1971 (concerns Abraham and his brothers Marcel Bloch and Jean-Richard Bloch, foreword by Jacques Duclos )
• Nicole Racine, “Pierre Abraham, Lucien Febvre et les tomes Arts et Littératures dans la société contemporaine”, in: Cahiers Jaurès 163–164, 2002, pp. 117–147

Web links

• Literature by and about Pierre Abraham in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/pierre-abraham/ (Pierre GAMARRA, "ABRAHAM PIERRE - (1892-1974)", in: Encyclopædia Universalis )
• Information on Pierre Abraham in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• Short biography (French)