The path continues, biography of Georges Lambrichs
Georges Lambrichs Jean Paulhan
Actualitté, NS, 16 février 2023
Editor of Samuel Beckett and J. M. G. Le Clezio, Georges Lambrichs was one of the great animators of literary life in the second half of the 20th century. Born in Belgium in 1917, in contact with La NRF from the 1930s onward, he became in 1942 the Brussels correspondent of the clandestine literary review Messages. Close to Vercors, he worked as a reader at Editions de Minuit at the Liberation, before taking over its literary direction. Alongside Jerome Lindon, he published Samuel Beckett, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, and Michel Butor. This was the era of the "new novel," but also of a very strong link between La NRF and Minuit, sustained by friendship with Jean Paulhan. Joining Gallimard in 1959, Georges Lambrichs orchestrated the emergence of a new generation of writers and critics. Fully devoted to creative literature, he welcomed into the "Le Chemin" collection and its associated review, Les Cahiers du Chemin, Georges Perros, Jean Starobinski, Michel Chaillou, Jacques Reda, Henri Meschonnic, Pierre Guyotat, Gerard Mace, Jean-Marie Laclavetine, and, from 1962 onward, J. M. G. Le Clezio. Le chemin continue traces an exceptional editorial journey.
Le chemin continue. Biographie de Georges Lambrichs
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