Georges Limbour

Georges Limbour, born in Courbevoie on August 11, 1900, and died in Chiclana de la Frontera, near Cádiz, on May 17, 1970 (at age 69), is a French writer and poet, regent of Poetic and Polar Ocupodonomy of the College of Pataphysics.

Resources

Images and portraits

Portraits of Georges Limbour by Dubuffet

Georges Limbour mentioned by Maurice Nadeau - video

Selected pieces - Georges Limbour, 1965 - France Culture

G. Limbour, Spectator of the arts. Writings on painting (1924-1969)

Georges Limbour resources - André Breton site

Georges Limbour resources — Mélusine site

Bibliography of texts published in the NRF

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

Texts by Georges Limbour

1. L'illustre cheval blanc [L'acteur du Lancashire ou... ], 1925-05-01
2. Histoire de famille, 1929-01-11
3. Le Panorama, 1935-12-01
4. Les Vanilliers (I), 1937-12-01
5. Les Vanilliers (II), 1938-01-01
6. Les Vanilliers (III), 1938-02-01
7. Les Vanilliers (Fin), 1938-03-01
8. Tableau bon Levain, à vous de cuire la pâte, 1953-11-02

Notes by Georges Limbour

These texts by Georges Limbour may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts.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. À l'éloge de la critique d'art, 1961-01-01, Les revues, les journaux

Texts about Georges Limbour

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'illustre cheval blanc, par Georges Limbour (Éditions de la N. R. F.), by Julien Lanoë, 1931-04-01, Notes : la poésie
2. La Pie voleuse, par Georges Limbour (Éditions de la N. R. F.), by Claude Roy, 1940-05-01, Notes : romans et récits

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 Commerce

The texts below, published in the journal Commerce, are grouped into two sets: texts by Georges Limbour and texts translated by the author.

Texts by Georges Limbour

1. Le cheval de Venise (p. 115-149), hiver 1928 [256 p.]

Translated texts by Georges Limbour

1. Roy Campbell, Poèmes (p. 68-85), hiver 1928 [256 p.]
2. Ossipe Mandelstam, Le timbre égyptien (p. 121-168), été 1930 [196 p.]
3. T.S. Eliot, Difficultés d’un homme d’état (p. 80-87), printemps 1932 [198-(VI) p.]

Bibliography of texts published in the journal Mesures

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

Texts by Georges Limbour

1. La pie voleuse, 15 avril 1937 [206 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 Georges Limbour, texts translated by the author, and texts about the author.

Texts by Georges Limbour

1. Élocoquente [I, automne 1949 [204 p.]
2. Élocoquente [II, printemps 1950 [208 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.]