author
Edmond Jaloux
1878–1949
A graceful French man of letters, this novelist and critic wrote with equal feeling for Parisian life and the landscapes of Provence. He was also known for opening French readers to foreign literature, especially English and German writers.
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L'Escalier d'Or
by Edmond Jaloux
L'âge d'or
by Edmond Jaloux
About the author
Born in Marseille on June 19, 1878, Edmond Jaloux became known as a French novelist, essayist, and literary critic. His fiction often returned to Paris and his native Provence, while his critical writing showed a wide curiosity about European literature.
He took a serious interest in German Romanticism and in English writers, and his reputation grew not only from his own books but from his work as a perceptive reader of others. In 1936, he was elected to the Académie française, a sign of the esteem he had earned in French literary life.
Jaloux died in Lutry, Switzerland, on August 22, 1949. Today he is often remembered as a cultivated, cosmopolitan voice in twentieth-century French letters.