Jean-Pierre Richard
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Jean-Pierre Richard, (born July 15, 1922, Marseille) is a French writer and literary critic and author of Littérature et Sensation.
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Biography
Jean-Pierre Richard began his advanced studies at the École normale supérieure in the rue d'Ulm (Paris) in 1941, passed the "agrégation" in litterature in 1945, and got his doctoral degree (docteur ès lettres) in 1962. He taught literature first in foreign universities, and then in France, and finally became a professor at the University of Paris IV in 1978.
He worked closely with Georges Poulet and he is sometimes grouped with the so-called "Geneva School".
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Main works
- Roland Barthes, dernier paysage (Verdier, 2006) on Roland Barthes
- Quatre lectures (Fayard, 2002)
- Proust et le monde sensible (Seuil, 1974) on Marcel Proust
- Onze études sur la poésie moderne (Seuil, 1964) on Pierre Reverdy, Saint-John Perse, René Char, Paul Eluard, Georges Schehadé, Francis Ponge, Eugène Guillevic, Yves Bonnefoy, André du Bouchet, Philippe Jaccottet, and Jacques Dupin.
- Poésie et profondeur (Seuil, 1955) on Arthur Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Gérard de Nerval and Paul Verlaine.
- Littérature et Sensation (Seuil, 1954)
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