Classiques du XXe siècle
Publisher: Editions universitaires. Country: France. Date: 1952- .

COLLECTION "CLASSIQUES DU XXe SIECLE" (EDITIONS UNIVERSITAIRES) - LIST
Series Note: "Ouvrage classique", dit le Dictionnaire de I'Academie, "Ouvrage qui a soutenu l'epreuve du temps et que les hommes de gout regardent comme un modele". Bien des ecrivains qui parurent, d'abord, indignes d'un tel hommage sont entres, plus ou moins vite, dans ce Pantheon de l'ame ou Racine ne rouglt pas de rencontrer un Stendhal, nl Goethe un Dostoievsky. Mais, s'il nest pas tres difficile d'elever a la dignete de classiques les ecrivains des siecles passes, une critique vivante doit aussi tenter de dire, hlc et nunc, quels sont ceux de nos contemporains qui meritent deja le nom de ciassique par le caractere exemplaire de leur experience et de leur style.

On a tente de reunir dans cette collection, Classiques du XXe siecle, hors de tout parti pris politique ou esthetlque, tous ceux qui, vivants ou morts, francais ou etrangers, paraissent repondre aux grandes preoccupations du monde moderne, depuis les morts de longue date comme Nietzsche ou Dostoievsky jusqu'a des ecrivains nee en ce siecle, comme Camus ou Mounier.

En demandant a tels de nos mellleurs critiques de presenter un ecnvain de leur choix, nous avons cru devoir leur rappeler que cette collection s'adressait au grand public, et particulierement a l'etranger. et quil convenait done de parler son langage: le plus simple, le plus direct, le plus naturel qui soit. La critique, telle que nous I'entendons ici, devrait avoir pour ambition d'amener a un auteur, repute difficile, les lecteurs restes indifferents a son ceuvre parce qu'ils n'en possedaient pas les bonnes cles.

Source: Back cover of the title Jean Genet in this series.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
"Classic work", says the Dictionary of the Academy, "A work which has stood the test of time and which men of taste look to as a model". Many writers who seemed, at first, unworthy of such homage entered, more or less quickly, into this Pantheon of the soul where Racine did not blush at meeting a Stendhal, a Goethe or a Dostoievsky. But, if it is not very difficult to elevate the writers of past centuries to the dignity of classics, a living criticism must also try to say, hic et nunc [= here and now], which of our contemporaries are already worthy of the name of ciassic by the exemplary nature of their experience and style.

We have tried to bring together in this collection, Classiques du XXe siecle [= Classics of the 20th Century], without any political or aesthetic bias, all those who, living or dead, French or foreign, seem to respond to the great concerns of the modern world, since the long dead like Nietzsche or Dostoievsky up to writers born in this century, like Camus or Mounier.

By asking some of our best critics to present a writer of their choice, we thought it necessary to remind them that this collection was aimed at the general public, and particularly abroad. and that it was therefore appropriate to speak his language: the simplest, the most direct, the most natural there is. Criticism, as we understand it here, should aim to bring to an author, deemed difficult, readers who remained indifferent to his work because they did not have the right keys.

Series Editor: French diplomat, man of letters and literary critic Pierre de Boisdeffre

Series No. / Title / Author / Date

1.
Camus
by Robert de Luppé
1952

2.
Malraux
by Pierre de Boisdeffre
1952

3.
Proust
by Georges Cattaul
1958

4.
Charles Péguy
by Jean Roussel
1952

5.
Charles Maurras
by Michel Mourre
1953

6.
André Maurois
by Michel Droit
1953

7.
François Mauriac
by Jacques Robichon
1955

8.
Graham Greene
by Victor de Pange [Victor Marie Thomas de Pange]
Translated by Marcelle Sibon
1953

9.
Paul Claudel
by Louis Barjon
1955

10.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
by J.-C. Ibert [Jean-Claude Ibert]
1953

11.
Jean-Paul Sartre
by R.-M. Alberes [René Marill Albérès]
1953

12.
Thomas Mann
by Louis Leibrich
1957

13.
Paul Valéry
by Ed. la Rochefoucauld [Edmée de La Rochefoucauld]
1954

14.
Georges Bernanos
by Louis Chaigne
1954

15.
Léon Bloy
by Georges Cattaui
1954

16.
André Gide
by Marc Beigbeder
1954

17.
Charles Plisnier
by Roger Bodart
1954

18.
Henry de Montherlant
by Georges Bordonove
1954

19.
Jean Giraudoux
by V. H. Debidour [Victor-Henry Debidour]
1954

20.
Emile Verhaeren
by Lucien Christophe
1955

21.
Jean Giono
by Jacques Pugnet
1955

22.
Alain-Fournier
by Clément Borgal
1955

23.
Anna de Noailles
by Ed. la Rochefoucauld [Edmée de La Rochefoucauld]
1956

24.
Colette
by M. Le Hardouin [Maria Le Hardouin]
1956

25.
Paul Morand
by G. Guitard-Auviate [Ginette Guitard-Auviste]
1956

26.
Julien Green
by Pierre Brodin
1957

27.
Miguel de Unamuno
by René Marill
1954

28.
Luigi Pirandello
by Jules Chaix-Ruy
1957

29.
T. S. Eliot
by Georges Cattaui
1957

30.
Roger Martin du Gard
by Clément Borgal
1957

31.
Henry James
by Georges Markow-Totevy
Preface by André Maurois
1958

32.
Léon-Paul Fargue
by Ed. la Rochefoucauld [Edmée de La Rochefoucauld]
1958

33.
Jules Romains
by Madeleine Berry
1959

34.
Jean Anouilh
by Robert de Luppé
1959

35.
Franz Kafka
by René Marill Albérès and Pierre de Boisdeffre
1960

36.
Teilhard de Chardin
by Norbert M. Wildiers
1960

37.
Saint-John Perse
by Christian Murcinaux
1960

38.
Rainer Maria Rilke
by Bernard Halda
1961

39.
Simone Weil
by Marie-Magdeleine Davy
1961

40.
Bertold Brecht
by Walter Weideli
1961

41.
Anton Tchekhov
by Quentin Ritzen
1961

42.
Marie-Noel
by Michel Marnoll
Preafce by Marie Noël
1962

43.
Maurice Barrès
by Pierre de Boisdeffre
1962

44.
Maeterlinck
by Jean-Marie Andrieu
1962

45.
Charles Morgan
by Victor de Ponge
1962

46.
Ernest Hemingway
by Quentin Ritzen
1962

47.
Dostoïevski
by Jacques Madaule
1956, 1968

48.
John Steinbeck
by Patrick Rafroidi
1962

49.
Gérard de Nerval
by R.-M. Albérès [René Marill Albérès]
1962

50.
Emmanuel Mounier
by Lucien Guissard
1962

51.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
by Pol Vandromme
1963

52.
Simone de Beauvoir
by Genevieve Gennarl
1967

53.
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
by Pierre Vandromme
1958

54.
Albert Schweitzer
by Jacques Feschotte
1958

55.
Blaise Cendrars
by Jean Rousselot
1955

56.
James Joyce
By Joseph Majault
1963

57.
Boris Pasternak
by Guy de Mallac
1957

58.
Samuel Beckett
by André Marissel
1963

59.
Nietzsche
by Jules Chaix-Ruy
1963

60.
Faulkner
by René-Noël Raimbault
1963

61.
Michel de Ghelderode
by Pol Vandromme
1963

62.
Ionesco
by Philippe Sénart
1964, 1966

63.
Paul Eluard
by Louis Perche
1963

64.
Michel Butor
by R.-M. Albérès [René Marill Albérès]
1964

65.
Massignon
by Jean Morillon
1964

66.
Husserl
by Ludovic Robberechts
1964

67.
Aragon
by Georges Raillard
1964

68.
Sigmund Freud
by J.-F. Bayen [Jeanne-Françoise Bayen]
Postface by Quentin Ritzen
1964, 1967

69.
Boris Vian
by David Noakes
1964

70.
Alain
by Bernard Halda
1965

71.
Ezra Pound
by G. S. Fraser [George Sutherland Fraser]
1964

72.
Milosz
by Anne Richter
1965

73.
Jean Cocteau
by Gérard Mourgue
1965

74.
Alfred Jarry
by Louis Perche
1965

75.
Robbe-Grillet
by Jean Miesch
1965

76.
Jean Genet
by Claude Bonnefoy
1965

77.
David-Herbert Lawrence [= D. H. Lawrence]
by Marcel Marnat
1966

78.
Henry Miller
By F.-J. Temple [Frédéric Jacques Temple]
1965

79.
Sade
by J.-J. Brochier [Jean-Jacques Brochier]
1966

80.
Charles de Foucauld
by Pierre Lyautey
1966

81.
Nathalie Sarraute
by René Micha
1966

82.
Elie Faure
by Paul Desanges
1966

83.
Henri Bergson
by Michel Barlow
1966

84.
Paul Nizan
by Ariel Ginsbourg
1966

85.
Julien Gracq
by Jean-Louis Leutrat
1967

86.
Emile Zola
by Michel Euvrard
1967

87.
Charles Baudelaire
by Clément Borgal
1967

88.
Henri Michaux
by Napoleón Murat
1967

89.
Jacques Audiberti
by Michel Giroud
1967

90.
Raymond Queneau
by Paul Gayot
1967


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