Jean Cassou

_Jean Cassou, born July 9, 1897 in Deusto and died January 16, 1986 in Paris, is a French writer, resistance fighter, museum curator, art critic, translator, and poet. He is also the founding director of the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris and the first president of the Institute of Occitan Studies.

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Resources

Poets in resistance

Jean Cassou — Museum of the Order of the Liberation

Geography of the Resistance: the South told by Jean-Pierre Vernant and Jean Cassou

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Correspondance : Jean Cassou & Jean Paulhan, 1928-1955

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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 Jean Cassou, notes and columns by the author, texts about the author, and, when available, translations by the author.

Texts by Jean Cassou

1. Ramon Gomez de la Serna, 1924-08-01
2. Propos sur le surréalisme, 1925-01-01
3. Pierre Louÿs, 1925-07-01
4. Les aventures de Miroumir, 1925-09-01
5. Max Jacob et la liberté, 1928-04-01
6. De l'Étoile au Jardin des Plantes, 1930-12-01
7. Le gladiateur centenaire, 1935-03-01
8. Les enfants sans âge, 1938-05-01
9. Des pouvoirs de la littérature, 1954-09-01
10. Vœu de richesse, 1963-02-01
11. Ramon Gomez de la Serna, 1963-06-01
12. Art et musique de Jouve, 1968-03-01

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Notes by Jean Cassou

These texts by Jean Cassou may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts.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. Les Mystérieuses Noces, par P. J. Jouve (Stock), 1925-09-01, Notes : la poésie
2. Calligrammes, par Guillaume Apollinaire (Éditions de la N. R. F.), 1925-10-01, Notes : la poésie
3. Quintus Fixlein, par Jean-Paul Richter (Stock), 1926-03-01, Notes : lettres étrangères
4. Pages caractéristiques de Baltasar Gracian (Mercure de France), 1926-10-01, Notes : lettres étrangères
5. Les Cahiers de Malte Laurids Brigge, par Rainer Maria Rilke (Émile-Paul), 1926-11-01, Notes : lettres étrangères
6. Gueule d'Amour, par André Beucler (Éditions de la N. R. F.), 1926-12-01, Notes : le roman
7. Les Élixirs du Diable, par Hoffmann (Stock), 1927-05-01, Notes : lettres étrangères
8. Le Promeneur, par Odilon-Jean Périer (Éditions de la N. R. F.), 1927-06-01, Notes : le promeneur
9. Écrits en prose, par Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Schiffrin), 1927-06-01, Notes : lettres étrangères
10. Blasco Ibañez, 1928-03-01, Notes : lettres étrangères
11. L'École des Femmes, par André Gide (N. R. F.), 1929-07-01, Notes : le roman
12. Art, par Ozenfant (Budry), 1929-07-01, Notes : les arts
13. Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1929-08-01, Notes : lettres étrangères
14. Exposition Chirico (Galerie du Niveau), 1935-12-01, Notes : les arts

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Texts about Jean Cassou

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. Bayonne, par Jean Cassou (Émile-Paul), by Jean Guérin, 1927-12-01, Notules
2. Mémoires de l'Ogre, par Jean Cassou (Plon), by Henry Dérieux, 1931-03-01, Notes : le roman
3. Pour la poésie, par Jean Cassou (Corrêa), by René Daumal, 1935-05-01, Notes : la critique

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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.