Albert Thibaudet
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Albert Thibaudet
Thibaudet, Albert (1874-1936). French literary critic. By training a historian-geographer-philosopher, Thibaudet became the critical stalwart of the Nouvelle Revue Française in the inter-war period. A trencherman for text, he pursued a method informed by Bergsonian concepts of élan and durée, but personal and undogmatic, if somewhat prolix. He had a geographer's eye for the contours of a genre and a historian's for its evolution. From La Poésie de Stéphane Mallarmé (1912) to his seminal Histoire de la littérature française de 1789 à nos jours (1936), numerous volumes testify to his range—Flaubert (1922), Paul Valéry (1924), Physiologie de la critique (1930), Stendhal (1931). His La République des professeurs (1928) is a sociological study of French intellectuals. The foremost critic of his time, he still stimulates the mind.
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Albert Thibaudet (1874, Tournus, Saône-et-Loire - 1936, Geneva) was a French essayist and literary critic. A former student of Henri Bergson, he was a professor of Jean Rousset. He taught at the University of Geneva, and was succeeded in his post by Marcel Raymond.
Works
- La Campagne avec Thucydide, 1922 (on Thucydides)
- Gustave Flaubert, 1922, republished, 1936
- Le Bergsonisme, 1923 (on Henri Bergson)
- Physiologie de la critique, 1930
- Les idées politiques en France, 1931
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