René Lalou (writer)
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Réné Lalou (3 September 1889 – 19 November 1960) was a French teacher and writer.
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Biography
René Lalou was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer. Agrégé of English, he taught at the Lycée of Oran, Lycée of Beauvais, Lycée Lakanal and Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. He wrote several literary biographies and translated English texts into French. He contributed to the Revue des Vivants in the 1930s. During the Occupation, he contributed to Gavroche, house organ of the communist organization Front Patriotique de la Jeunesse (FPJ), founded by Marcel Bidoux, of which he was for a time director of publication and which continued after the war in the form of a socialist cultural review.
René Lalou died in Paris.
Works
- Histoire de la Littérature Française Contemporaine (1922)
- Les Écrivains chez Eux (1925)
- Défense de l'Homme (Intelligence et Sensualité) (1926)
- Vers une Alchimie Lyrique (1927)
- Panorama de la Littérature Anglaise Contemporaine (1927)
- Saül d'Israël (1929)
- L'Idée du Voyageur dans la Littérature Contemporaine (1929)
- Paul Valéry (1930)
- André Gide (1931)
- Le Clavecin Non tempéré: Essai sur Notre Temps (1933)
- Roger Martin du Gard (1937)
- Les Étapes de la Poésie Française (1943)
- Maurice Barrès (1950)
- Le Théâtre en France depuis 1900 (1951)
References
- Dröge, Christoph (1994). "Ernst Robert Curtius und René Lalou. Deutsch-französische Fachgespräche." In: Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft, eds., Lingua et Traditio. Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft und der neueren Philologien. Festschrift für Hans Helmut Christmann zum 65. Geburtstag. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, pp. 575–91.
- Hubert, Marie-Clotilde (1970). "Lettres de Paul Claudel a René Lalou, 1922-1946," Bulletin de la Société Paul Claudel, No. 40, pp. 2–13.
