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Claude Elsen

Claude Elsen, real name before the war Gaston Derycke, man of letters, journalist at "Cassandre" (in 1944), author of Homo Eroticus published in the collection Les Essais, by Gallimard.

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Correspondance : Claude Elsen & Jean Paulhan, 1950-1958

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Bibliography of texts published in the NRF

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

Notes by Claude Elsen

These texts by Claude Elsen may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts.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 Baie perdue, par Manès Sperber (Calmann-Lévy), 1953-05-01, Notes : les romans, lettres étrangères
  2. Histoires sous le vent, par Jacques Perret (Gallimard), 1953-09-01, Revue
  3. Science-fiction, 1954-09-01, Notes : le roman
  4. La Couleur tombée du ciel, par H. P. Lovecraft (Denoël), 1954-12-01, Notes : lettres étrangères
  5. Promenades dans Rome, par Stendhal (J.-J. Pauvert), 1955-11-01, De tout un peu
  6. Histoires impossibles, par Ambrose Bierce (Grasset), 1956-07-01, Notes : lettres étrangères
  7. L'Œuf – Chair et Cuir – Les Belles Natures, par Félicien Marceau (Gallimard), 1957-05-01, Notes : les romans
  8. Une lettre, 1963-01-01, Correspondance
  9. Jacques Spitz, 1963-03-01, Notes : le roman

Translations by Claude Elsen

  1. Un peu déboussolé, by Angus Wilson, 1959-07-01

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 Les Cahiers de la Pleiade

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

Texts by Claude Elsen

  1. Mythologie de Jean Genet, printemps 1950 [208 p.]
  2. De l’engagement considéré comme une démission, automne 1951-printemps 1952 [204 p.]