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Portrait de André Dhôtel

André Dhôtel

André Dhôtel is our Dickens. The beauty of his novels comes first of all from their spontaneous abundance, their naive generosity. Like Arab storytellers, Dhôtel spreads out his little carpet, and then begins to tell and tell endlessly; Adventures come to mind so quickly that no one would think that he could have made a plan or ever calculated his style and his sentences. These are the adventures of naked life.
And we hang on his words. These are completely banal adventures that happen to our neighbors as well as to us: to the postman on our street, to the shoemaker, to the errand boy – although they perhaps have a preference for the unfortunate, for the worried and for the wicked.
Yet the greatness of André Dhôtel lies elsewhere. I think he is never satisfied with misfortune and wickedness. Through misfortune, wickedness, the apparent mediocrity of existence, he pursues some unknown truth in which we would all be reconciled. He pursues it and I had the impression more than a hundred times that he had found it and was giving it to us in the same wonder that comes to us from a sudden ray, a smile, a dawn.
It looks like a construction site open to the rising sun, with its stones still glistening with dew.

Jean Paulhan, 1955

Resources

Association of Friends of André Dhôtel

List of works by André Dhôtel

Interview between André Dhôtel, Patrick Reumaux and Germaine Beaumont - France Culture (text)

André Dhôtel, 1987 - video

Jean Paulhan, by André Dhôtel

André Dhôtel - Internet Archive

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Correspondance : André Dhôtel & Jean Paulhan, 1950-1956

Text by André Dhôtel about Jean Paulhan :

Bibliography of texts published in the NRF

The texts below, published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, are grouped into four main sets: texts by André Dhôtel, notes and columns by the author, texts about the author, and, when available, translations by the author.

Texts by André Dhôtel

  1. Bulletin, les livres : I. La poésie : autour de Rimbaud, 1939-10-01
  2. Intermède, 1942-05-01
  3. Les premiers Temps (I), 1953-02-01
  4. Les premiers Temps (II), 1953-03-01
  5. Les Premiers Temps (III), 1953-04-01
  6. Les Premiers Temps (IV), 1953-05-01
  7. Les Premiers Temps (Fin), 1953-06-01
  8. Fernand, qui est mort au bord de la rivière, 1957-07-01
  9. L'Arc-en-ciel, 1958-10-01
  10. Un Adieu, mille Adieux, 1960-06-01
  11. Auberges, 1963-06-01
  12. La vérité est mélangée, 1964-11-01
  13. L'Horizon, 1966-07-01
  14. Un chant dans la vie, 1968-04-01

Notes by André Dhôtel

These texts by André Dhôtel may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts. They appeared in NRF sections such as Chronique des romans, L'air du mois, Le temps comme il passe, etc., or in tribute issues.

  1. La vie privée des champignons, par Georges Becker (Stock), 1954-01-01, Notes : livres de nature
  2. Secrets et mystères du monde animal, par Chapman Pincher (Stock), 1954-03-01, Notes : les livres de nature
  3. Philosophie fédérative, 1954-05-01, Chroniques
  4. L'oiseau, cet inconnu, par Len Howard (Hachette), 1954-06-01, Notes : les livres de nature
  5. Merveilleux épisodes, 1963-02-01, Le temps, comme il passe
  6. La chanson d'Audiberti, 1965-12-01, Études
  7. Le Veilleur aveugle, par Jean Mambrino (Mercure de France), 1966-02-01, Notes : la poésie
  8. Anthologie des chansons populaires grecques (Gallimard), 1968-05-01, Notes : lettres étrangères

Texts about André Dhôtel

These texts may include thematic studies about the author, correspondence, reading notes on works by or about the author, interviews conducted by the author, or works edited by the author.

  1. Le maître de pension, par André Dhôtel (Grasset), by Roger Judrin, 1954-07-01, Notes : le roman
  2. Le Ciel du Faubourg, par André Dhôtel (Grasset), by Roger Judrin, 1956-07-01, Notes : le roman
  3. Dans la Vallée du chemin de fer, par André Dhôtel (Pierre Horay), by Jean Forton, 1958-03-01, Notes : le roman
  4. Les Voyages fantastiques de Julien Grainebis, par André Dhôtel (Pierre Horay), by Georges Borgeaud, 1959-02-01, Notes : le roman
  5. Le Neveu de Parencloud, par André Dhôtel (Grasset), by Willy de Spens, 1960-05-01, Notes : le roman
  6. Ma Chère Âme, par André Dhôtel (Gallimard), by Élisabeth Porquerol, 1961-05-01, Notes : le roman

Chronological distribution of texts published in the NRF (1908-1968)

This chart shows the chronological distribution of texts across the four categories defined above: Texts, Notes, Translations, and Texts about the author.

Bibliography of texts published in the journal Mesures

The texts below, published in the journal Mesures, are grouped into two sets: texts by André Dhôtel and texts translated by the author.

Texts by André Dhôtel

  1. Pierre Marceau, 15 avril 1940 [174 p.]

Bibliography of texts published in Les Cahiers de la Pleiade

The texts below, published in Les Cahiers de la Pleiade, are grouped into three sets: texts by André Dhôtel, texts translated by the author, and texts about the author.

Texts by André Dhôtel

  1. Le Pays des Cerises, avril 1947 [292 p.]
  2. Cieux éclatants du soir, automne 1949 [204 p.]

Texts about

These texts may include thematic studies about the author, correspondence, reading notes on works by or about the author, or works translated by the author.

  1. Les Romanciers du Point du Jour (Georges Limbour, Henri Thomas et André Dhôtel), by Dominique Aury, été 1948 [184 p.]