Adrienne Monnier

Adrienne Monnier, born on April 26, 1892, in Paris, where she died on June 19, 1955, was a French bookseller, book publisher, organizer of literary evenings and encounters, writer, and poet.

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Resources

Adrienne Monnier to Jean Paulhan, correspondence (1926-1936), OBVIL Hyper Paulhan project

Adrienne Monnier: "I opened my bookshop out of love for books, I wanted to read everything that has been written in the world" - France Culture
Adrienne Monnier explains how she became a bookseller and shares her literary tastes (or dislikes), from Dada to James Joyce, through Saint-Exupery, Jules Romain, and Hemingway.

Adrienne Monnier on Apollinaire, Breton, and Aragon - INA radio 1947 Adrienne Monnier recalls her encounter with Andre Breton, Aragon, and Guillaume Apollinaire. She remembers that Andre Breton was deeply impressed by the poet.

Adrienne Monnier and Sylvia Beach, booksellers and pioneers of 20th-century literary life

See The editorial board of "Mesures", Sylvia Beach, Barbara Church, Vladimir Nabokov, Adrienne Monnier, Germaine Paulhan, Henri Church, Henri Michaux, Jean Paulhan, Michel Leiris - photographed by Gisele Freund in 1937, CGP.

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Correspondance : Adrienne Monnier & Jean Paulhan, 1926-1936

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Exhibitions :

• Homage to Commerce: letters and arts in Paris, 1920-1935

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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 Adrienne Monnier, notes and columns by the author, texts about the author, and, when available, translations by the author.

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Notes by Adrienne Monnier

These texts by Adrienne Monnier may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts.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. L'exposition Paul-Émile Bécat, 1927-01-01, Notes : les arts
2. Le Soldat, de Paul Terrace, 1934-12-01, Revues et divers
3. Un souvenir d'Alfred Vallette, 1935-11-01, L'air du mois
4. De la crise du livre, 1938-03-01, Les revues
5. Gazettes, 1939-09-01, Les revues

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Translations by Adrienne Monnier

1. Anna Livie [sic] Plurabelle, by James Joyce, 1931-05-01
2. Paris 1900, by Bryher, 1937-12-01

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Texts about Adrienne Monnier

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. Les Gazettes, par Adrienne Monnier (Julliard), by Georges Perros, 1954-02-01, De tout un peu

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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.

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Bibliography of texts published in the journal Mesures

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

Texts by Adrienne Monnier

1. Chien-Espace, 15 octobre 1936 [174 p.]

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Translated texts by Adrienne Monnier

1. Dorothy Richardson, De la ponctuation, 15 janvier 1935 [186 p.]