Jean Paulhan

"Jean Paulhan, you know, was a simple member of the reading committee of La Nouvelle Revue Française with André Gide, but we repeated to all the echoes that he alone decided on the choice of manuscripts, because he was considered to be the Eminence grise who, secretly, governed. A young author never dreamed than to obtain from him some encouragement and, if possible, approval and support which ensures his access to the field of letters and perhaps his future. But go and touch this character who was surrounded and surrounded himself by a mystery. His judgments appeared spontaneous, sudden and surprising. In interviews, he never failed to embarrass you because his comments were not from a master but from a curious person who sought to surprise you and even to take you apart while maintaining extreme reserve himself." (André Dhôtel)

Summary :

Jean Paulhan by André Dhôtel

Interviews

    with Francine Leullier, 1966
    with Roger Pillaudin, 1964
Who are you, Jean Paulhan? with Emmanuel Berl and André Gillois, 1950
    with Jacques Charpier
   Children of the century, with André Gillois, 1949
    with Jean Paget, 1963

Unpublished texts by Jean Paulhan

    Memories, Frédéric Paulhan
    Introduction to who-ne-knows-what
Repentance
    The common man
    Death of Fénéon
    News from the old people of novel
    Letters to Marthe de Fels

Published in 1986 by Éditions La Manufacture