René Rapin (English studies)

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René Rapin (born April 19, 1899 ; † April 1973 ) was a Swiss English specialist .

On October 30, 1956, Rapin gave his inaugural lecture on Reality and Imagination in the Work of Joseph Conrad at the Faculty of Literature at the University of Lausanne .

Rapin wrote about Charles Dickens several times . In 1959 he published Lausanne and some English Writers . He was a member of the Dickens Fellowship .

In 1966 he published a critical edition of the correspondence between Conrad and Marguerite Poradowska at Librairie Droz .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in Bulletin des amis d'André Gide , No. 18–32, 1973, p. 49.
  2. ↑ OCLC 315516782
  3. ^ Michael Hollington : The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe. London / New York: Bloomsbury, 2013, ISBN 9781623560768 , p. 280.
  4. ↑ OCLC 558802043
personal data
SURNAME Rapin, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Anglicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1899
DATE OF DEATH April 1973