Texts by Jean Paulhan
The texts below are grouped (somewhat artificially) by theme: friendship, politics, language, criticism... Jean Guerin notes have their own section, with links to the Nouvelle Revue Francaise pages where they appeared.
Le Spectateur
À partir de 1910, Jean Paulhan collabore à la revue Le Spectateur, “Observations et essais sur l'intelligence dans la pratique et dans la vie quotidienne”, fondée par René Martin-Guelliot.
- Si l'on vous écoutait
- The argument of identicals
- The argument: you are another
- An opinion about the Franco-German agreement
- The argument: a penny is a penny
- Logic dictates...
- The Firefighters’ Hall
- Assassin for twenty francs
- I don't know my job
- Some remarks which cannot fail to encourage the observation of a dispute
- The Vieux-Colombier theater
Tales
- Luce, the Neglected Child
- Jeanne of the Mill
- Thought without Object
- The Dream in the Awakening
- Mania
- The Severe Cure
- Aytré who loses the habit
- For the First Time
- Surprised and Fulfilled
Stories
Preface
Correspondence
Souvenirs
Souvenirs de Jean Paulhan et de son père Frédéric Paulhan.
Amitié
- Letters to a few about Marcel Jouhandeau
- Letters to Jean Guéhenno
- Interview with Paul Éluard
- Some letters to Paul Éluard
Arts
- Letter to Jean Dubuffet, 1944
- Letter to Jean Dubuffet
- Dialogue with Fautrier
- Fautrier in Italy
- Grace and atrocity of Fautrier
- A young ancestor, Fautrier
- Letters to Marcel Jouhandeau about Braque
- Nine letters to Georges Braque with two responses from the painter
- Painting in God
- Some letters to Joë Bousquet
- Letters to Marcel Arland
Interviews
Langage
- Little notes for bridge lovers
- The necessities of life and the consequences of dreams, introductory note
- On the Lower Slopes, Preface
- Rhetoric rises from its ashes
- The lady of the mirrors
- Elements
- Introduction to Vailati
- Letter to Joë Bousquet
- Letter to Julien Benda
- Letter to René Daumal
- Letters to Marthe de Fels
- Optics of language, or if words are worn-out metaphors
- Optics of language: intentions of some Chinese poems
- Notes: Poems, by Isidore Ducasse
- Notes: Popular language, by Henri Bauche
- Letter to Barbara Church
- Letters Jean Paulhan - Georges Perros
- If words are signs
- If words are signs (continued)
- If words are signs (end)
Sagesse et Mystique
- Three letters to Gaston Gallimard
- Fautrier in Japan
- Tao te Ching, translated by Jean Herbert
- Wisdom, short texts
- Notes: G. K. Chesterton, his ideas and his character, by Joseph de Tonquédec
Le Directeur de revues
- Working note from Jean Paulhan sent to Jacques Rivière (May 6, 1920)
- Working note from Jean Paulhan sent to Jacques Rivière (May 12, 1920)
- Working note from Jean Paulhan sent to Jacques Rivière (May 17, 1920)
- Working note from Jean Paulhan sent to Jacques Rivière (1921) and responses from Jacques Rivière
- Journal note on his role at the NRF
- Letters from Jean Paulhan to Francis Ponge
- Letters from Jean Paulhan to Gabriel Bounoure
- Paris Congress, 1921
- Introduction of NRf in Canada
- Presentation of the NRf at the Club du Faubourg
- hai-kaïs
- Note: The Jade Flute, by Franz Toussaint
La Vie
Proverbe
Journal de Psychologie
Entre 1904 et 1909, Jean Paulhan a écrit de nombreux comptes-rendus de lecture dans le Journal de Psychologie normale et pathologique fondé par Georges Dumas et Pierre Janet.
- Fatigue, by J. Joteyko, 1904
- The faculty of distant orientation, by Ed. Claparède, 1904
- Measurement of the attention of the weak-minded, by F. Consoni, 1904
- Abnormal and degenerate, by Étienne Rabaud, 1904
- Phenomena of paramnesia, by A. Lemaître, 1904
- Observations of animal psychology, by H. Piéron, 1905
- The examination of suggestibility in the nervous, by L. Schnyder, 1905
- The illusions of psychologists, by G. Sergi, 1905
- The genesis of aesthetic emotion, by A. Leclère, 1905
- Brain and thought, by A. Binet, 1906
- Substitutes for the soul in modern psychology, by N. Kostyleff, 1907
- Essay on the interpretation of some dreams, by A. Maeder, 1907
Rêves et Maladies
- Letter to doctor
- Dreams, February 7-8, 1904
- Dream, February 23-24, 1904
- Reserve on one point
- Imitation in the idea of the self
Critique
Jean Guérin
Le pseudonyme Jean Guérin recouvre plusieurs auteurs mais la grande majorité des chroniques et nouvelles brèves sont rédigées par Jean Paulhan.
Politique, Guerre
- A short treatise on pacifism
- Democracy appeals to the first comer
- Back to Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen
- Hope and silence
- In praise of Jacques Decour
- Letter to a young supporter
- Budapest, Sartre, Aron
- Mythologies of Roland Barthes
Les Lettres françaises
Les textes de Jean Paulhan qui suivent ont été publiés clandestinement pendant la guerre dans les Lettres françaises.