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Pierre Jean Jouve
First published in 1925, this novel strikingly prefigures the French ‘new wave’ in fiction. Paulina, said to be the most beautiful woman in Milan, enters a passionate, scandalous affair with…
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Classiques Garnier
How can we define Pierre Jean Jouve’s modernity? At the turn of the twentieth century, it seems that it manifests itself as much in the themes developed as in his…
Simone Sanzenbach
Jeremie Berton
This text invites the reader to listen attentively to a work that is filled with continuous dialogue between poetry and music, by closely examining a rhythm, a prosody, and a…
Jean-Paul Louis-Lambert
Chaque annee qui passe le confirme un peu plus: Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976) est l'un des plus grands poetes et romanciers francais du XXe siecle. Son oeuvre poetique, d'une haute…
After his marriage to a psychiatrist nine years his senior, Jouve’s work, once marked by the great Christian mystics, became grounded in the Freudian unconscious, site of the conflict between…
Jane Kathryn Stribling
Although Pierre Jean Jouve’s first novel, Paulina 1880, was published in 1925 and Michel Tournier’s first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique, did not appear until 1967, a painful…
Annie Ernaux,Pierre Jean Jouve,Francois Nourissier
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Thomas Le Colleter
This work studies the impact of the musical imaginary on writing by three twentieth-century poets: Lorca, Jouve, and Caproni. Their work invites us to meditate on the dream enunciated by…
