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Portrait de Gaëtan Picon

Gaëtan Picon

Gaëtan Picon is the second child of Honoré Picon, merchant navy officer, and Marie-Adrienne Paillier, belonging to a family of Bordeaux industrialists.


Resources

Site of the Association of Friends of Gaëtan Picon

Gaëtan Picon comments on the work of Virginia Woolf and its link with the new novel - 1967

Gaëtan Picon: “Surrealism changed our vision of literary history” - France Culture

Interview with Gaëtan Picon 1/2 - Parts 1, 2 and 3 - France Culture

Interview with Gaëtan Picon 2/2 - Parts 4 and 5 - France Culture

Where is literature going? a debate moderated by Gaëtan Picon - France Culture

Where is literature going? Tel était le thème d’un débat animé en 1967 par Gaëtan Picon, réunissant Yves Berger, Romain Gary, François Nourissier et Alain Robbe Grillet , débat suivi d’un autre débat, en marge du festival d’Avignon, auquel participaient Jack Ralite, Michel Debeauvais et Georges Jean.

Gaëtan Picon (1915-1976): Aesthetics and Culture - video

“Tuesdays of the School of Charters”: November 5, 2013
Debate around Agnès Callu's book “Gaëtan Picon (1915-1976): Aesthetics and Culture”, with Christian Ingrao

Critical presence of Gaëtan Picon - In the opening of the work - Classiques Garnier

Jean Paulhan and Gaëtan Picon, editors between tradition and transmission

Politics in literature by Gaëtan Picon


Bibliography of texts published in the NRF

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


Texts about Gaëtan Picon

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. L'usage de la lecture, par Gaëtan Picon, by Yves Berger, 1961-03-01, Notes : les essais

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 Gaëtan Picon, texts translated by the author, and texts about the author.

Texts by Gaëtan Picon

  1. Le plus hautainement libre…, été-automne 1950 [188 p.]