Raymond Picard

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Raymond Picard (born August 6, 1917 in Bligny , Département Aube , † September 5, 1975 ibid) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar .

Life

Picard went to school in Nancy and studied in Paris. In 1945 he passed the Agrégation and was a high school teacher in Chartres until 1947 . From 1947 to 1954 he taught at the Institut Français in London and Athens. He completed his habilitation in 1955 with the two theses La Carrière de Jean Racine (Paris 1956, 1979) and "Corpus Racinianum". Recueil-inventaire des textes et documents du XVIIe siècle concernant Jean Racine (Paris 1956, Nouveau "Corpus Racinianum", 1976). From 1954 to 1956 he taught at the University of Lyon , from 1956 to 1963 at the University of Lille and from 1963 at the Sorbonne on the chair of 17th century French literature. Picard got the Pléiade edition of the works of Jean Racine . In a polemic that has become famous, he opposed Roland Barthes and his type of literary criticism, which disregarded the biography of the literary author for the interpretation of his text.

Picard was Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

Works

  • Les prestiges (novel), Paris 1947
  • La poésie française de 1640 à 1680 , 2 vol., Paris 1964–1969
  • Nouvelle critique ou nouvelle imposture , 1965 (Italian Milan 1966; English: New criticism or new fraud ?, Pullman, Washington State University Press 1969)
  • Racine polémiste , Paris 1967
  • Génie de la littérature française 1600-1800 . Introduction à quelques lectures Paris 1970 (English New York 1970; German: From La Fontaine to Rousseau. Critical models for French literature, Munich 1970)

literature

  • Robert Garapon in: Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France 76 , 1976
  • Raymond Picard: De Racine au Parthénon. Essais sur la littérature et l'art à l'âge classique , Paris 1977 (with list of publications)

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personal data
SURNAME Picard, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Bligny , Aube department
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1975
Place of death Bligny , Aube department