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Jacques Rivière (
15 July 1886 in
Bordeaux–
14 February 1925 in
Paris) was a
French "
man of letters". He edited
La Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF) from
1919 until his death. His close friend was
Alain-Fournier with whom he exchanged an abundant correspondence.
Biography
The son of an eminent
Bordeaux doctor, Rivière became friends with Henri Alban-Fournier (later known as
Alain-Fournier) at the Lycée Lakanal in
Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine. Both students prepared for the entrance examination for the
École Normale Supérieure, and both failed. Rivière returned to Bordeaux in
1905, and from that date until his death maintained a quasi-daily correspondence with Alban-Fournier. In this correspondence one can see the literary tastes of both authors taking shape.
Rivière obtained an arts degree in Bordeaux, performed his military service, and returned in
1907 to
Paris. Here he prepared a thesis at the
Sorbonne on the
Theodicy of Fénelon, while earning a living as a teacher at the
Stanislas College. He came under the influences of
Maurice Barrès,
Andre Gide and
Paul Claudel, with whom he corresponded.
On
24 August 1908, Rivière married Isabelle Alban-Fournier, his friend Henri's younger sister. In
1913, he explicitly declared his
Catholicism.
After writing for the literary revue
L'Occident, Rivière became a sub-editor of the NRF in
1912. He also began to write literary criticism, which he collected and published under the title of
Études. The essays in this book reveal Rivière's excellent sense of psychology.
Rivière was mobilized in
1914 in the 220th infantry, and was captured on
24 August, in an early battle. Imprisoned in a camp near
Königsbrück,
Saxony, he attempted several escapes, which caused him to be transferred to a disciplinary camp in Hülsberg,
Hanover. His memoirs of his captivity there were published in
1918 under the title
L’Allemand : souvenirs et réflexions d'un prisonnier de guerre (
The German: memories and reflections of a prisoner of war). Eventually he became seriously ill, and was transferred to
Switzerland where he was interned until the end of the war.
Shortly after the end of the war, Rivière restarted the NRF (whose publication had been stopped during the war). Under Rivière's direction, the NRF reappeared on
1 June 1919, and went on to publish the works of such writers as
Marcel Proust,
François Mauriac,
Paul Valéry,
Saint-John Perse,
Jean Giraudoux and
Jules Romains. Thereafter, Rivière neglected his own career as a writer, and wrote only one short psychological novel,
Aimé, published in
1922. He died of
typhoid fever on
14 February 1925 in Paris.
After his death, Rivière's wife devoted herself to the posthumous classification and publication of many of Rivière's works.
Works
- Études (1912)
- L’Allemand : souvenirs et réflexions d'un prisonnier de guerre (1918)
- Aimé (1922)
- À la trace de dieu (1925)
- (1926-1928)
- (1926)
- Carnet de guerre (1929)
- Rimbaud (1931)
- Moralisme et Littérature, dialogue avec Ramon Fernández (1932)
- Florence (1935) (unfinished novel)
- Carnets 1914-1917 (1977)
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