Paulhan citizen

At the time of the Popular Front, Jean Paulhan, municipal councilor of a town from the suburbs, elected on the list of Karl Marx's grandson, Jean Longuet, SFIO deputy mayor of Châtenay-Malabry, who would have thought it?
And yet, this éminence grise of French letters, who lives in the empyrean of the world of language and ideas, who says he understands nothing about politics, who seems to have no was a candidate only because someone came to look for him and he was unable to refuse, this Huron, who gives himself the air of a dilettante, will take his role very seriously. serious and live a unique experience.
Creator of the “Cercle Voltaire”, he organizes “talks” with, among other speakers: Marc Bernard, Brice Parain, Ramon Fernandez, Julien Benda, André Chamson, Pierre Béarn... as well as local personalities: he participates in his own way in the great momentum towards culture that characterizes the Popular Front. The detached and skeptical observer metamorphoses into an actor of what has been called "the beautiful illusion". But not just “the beautiful illusion”. His commitment, if it is sometimes paradoxical, is no less clear: against fascism, for aid to Spanish republicans...
Citizen Paulhan reveals to us an aspect too often left in the shadow of the life, thoughts and actions of Jean Paulhan.

Marcel Parent, associate professor of modern literature, has done, in National Education, a long journey that he completed in the role of Inspector General. He has led in parallel a life as a political activist and municipal elected official, deputy to mayor of Châtenay-Malabry. Writer, “Paulhan citizen” is his tenth work. This volume is the thirteenth in the “Jean Paulhan Series”.

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