Pierre Abraham, (1 March 1892 – 20 May 1974 in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

) was a French journalist, essayist and military figure in the

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during the world wars.

Biography

A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, he served during World War I from 1914 to 1918 as an aviator officer. After the war, his brother

Jean-Richard Bloch Jean-Richard Bloch (25 May 1884 in Paris – 15 March 1947) was a French critic, novelist and playwright. He was a member of the French Communist Party (PCF) and worked with Louis Aragon in the evening daily ''Ce soir''. Early life Jean Bloc ...

encouraged him to write and he entered various literary circles. He began with criticism in newspapers and magazines. He worked on the magazine ''Europe'' since the magazine was founded and published several essays, and was noticed for his originality. In 1935, he led a research team in compiling the French Encyclopedia. During World War II, he participated in the Resistance and Liberation of

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''. In the last years of his life, he directed the collective work of the ''

Histoire littéraire de la France ''Histoire littéraire de la France'' is an enormous history of French literature initiated in 1733 by Dom Rivet and the Benedictines of St. Maur. It was abandoned in 1763 after the publication of volume XII. In 1814, members of the Académie d ...

''.

Works

* '' Balzac'', Rieder, 1929 * ''Figures'', Gallimard, 1929 * ''

Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( ; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the novel (in French language, French – translated in English as ''Remembrance of Things Pas ...

'', Rieder, 1930 * ''Créatures chez Balzac'', Gallimard, 1930 * ''Le physique au théâtre'', Coutan-Lambert, 1933 * ''Une figure, deux visages'', 1934 * ''Tiens bon la rampe'', roman, 1951 * ''Les trois frères'', Editeurs Français Réunis, 1971 * ''

Freud Sigmund Freud ( ; ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in t ...

'', Editeurs Français Réunis, 1974

References

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