Albert Thibaudet
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"La poésie française, celle de la Renaissance, celle du classicisme, celle du romantisme, a été faite par des poètes qui exprimaient des émotions communes, qui manifestaient dans la lumière le monde de tous les hommes. On retrouvait dans les poètes un soi-même amplifié et sonore, une transfiguration des lieux communs de la vie. Nous sommes aujourd’hui plus exigeants. Nous demandons au poète de créer son monde."--Albert Thibaudet, « Sur la poésie », 1er février 1928, Réflexions sur la littérature |
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Albert Thibaudet (1 April 1874 in Tournus, Saône-et-Loire – 16 April 1936 in Geneva) was a French essayist and literary critic. A former student of Henri Bergson, he was a professor of Jean Rousset. He taught at the University of Geneva, and was the co-founder of the Geneva School of literary criticism. He was succeeded in his post by Marcel Raymond.
Career
Thibaudet's reputation increased through 1920s and 1930s, in part for his regular articles in the Nouvelle Revue Française which he wrote from 1912 until his death, as well as for his numerous books. In 1928, the philosopher Lucien Lévy-Bruhl sponsored him to participate in the first of the Cours universitaires de Davos, international meetings of intellectuals at Davos, Switzerland.
In 2008, the Thucydides Centre (a research institute of the Paris Panthéon-Assas University) inaugurated the "Albert Thibaudet Prize", awarded to a French-language writer on international relations.
Works
- La Campagne avec Thucydide, 1922 (on Thucydides)
- Gustave Flaubert, 1922, republished, 1936
- Le Bergsonisme, 1923 (on Henri Bergson)
- La république des professeurs, B. Grasset, Paris 1927
- Physiologie de la critique, 1930
- Les idées politiques en France, 1931
- Le marquis de Sade et le roman noir (1933)
- Histoire de la littérature française - de 1789 à nos jours, 1936
- La Poésie de Stéphane Mallarmé
