French Literature Reviews - 2026

V. Larbaud, Notes for a Biography (Unpublished)
Writers: Biography, Letters and Memoirs

Valery Larbaud, Notes for a Biography

Editions Claire Paulhan, 2006, 110 p.

EAN : 9782912222244

20 €

(Also includes the publication of his Correspondence 1912-1924 with the young editor of La NRF, Jacques Rivière)

Both volumes are introduced and annotated by Françoise Lioure, a leading scholar on Valery Larbaud who has previously published his correspondence with Marcel Ray and André Gide. Includes numerous archival facsimiles and color photographs, several of which are unpublished.

This volume presents biographical notes by Valery Larbaud alongside his correspondence from 1912 to 1924 with Jacques Rivière, the young editor associated with La Nouvelle Revue française. Introduced and annotated by scholar Françoise Lioure, who has previously published Larbaud's correspondence with Marcel Ray and André Gide, the publication includes archival facsimiles and color photographs, several of which are unpublished.

Readers interested in modernist literature, French intellectual history, and archival studies may find this volume relevant. The editorial apparatus provided by the volume places these documents within the context of Larbaud's literary career and his professional relationships within the French publishing sphere during the early twentieth century.