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Pierre Abraham

Pierre Abraham, born Pierre Bloch on March 1, 1892 in Paris 8th and died on May 20, 1974 in Paris 4th, is a French journalist, writer and essayist. He is the youngest of the three sons of Louise Bloch née Lévy (1858-1944) and her husband Richard Bloch (1852–1934) and the brother of the writer Jean-Richard Bloch (1884-1947). He was the director of the magazine Europe, of which he presented most of the issues from 1949 to 1974, published new essays and collaborated with the weekly Les Lettres françaises until 1960..

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Master's Note

Europe magazine website

Romain Rolland and the war (1st broadcast: 01/22/1966), with Maurice Genevoix, André Chamson, Jean Guéhenno, René Cheval, Pierre Grappin, Marie Dormoy, Gabriel Perreux, Pierre Abraham, Ernest Labrousse, Vallery Radot and Louis Pasteur

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Correspondance : Pierre Abraham & Jean Paulhan, 1930-1935

Bibliography of texts published in the NRF

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

Texts by Pierre Abraham

  1. Sur Proust, 1930-12-01
  2. Une figure, deux visages, 1934-03-01
  3. Une figure, deux visages (Suite et fin), 1934-04-01

Notes by Pierre Abraham

These texts by Pierre Abraham may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts.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 Principes de la Caractérologie, par Klages (Alcan), 1930-10-01, Notes : lettres étrangères
  2. Balzac et le monde des affaires, par Emmanuel Faillettaz (Payot), 1932-09-01, Revue des livres
  3. Rudyard Kipling, 1936-02-01, Notes : lettres étrangères

Translations by Pierre Abraham

  1. Grand'peur et misères du Troisième Reich, by Bertolt Brecht, 1939-06-01

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.