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Jacques Rivière
1886–1925
A sharp-minded French critic and editor, he helped shape modern literary taste in the years after World War I. His writing is remembered for its clarity, seriousness, and close attention to art and literature.
5 Audiobooks
Études: Baudelaire, Paul Claudel, André Gide, Rameau, Bach, Franck, Wagner, Moussorgsky, Debussy, Ingres, Cézanne, Gauguin
by Jacques Rivière
De la sincérité envers soi-même
by Jacques Rivière
L'Allemand : souvenirs et réflexions d'un prisonnier de guerre
by Jacques Rivière
Aimée
by Jacques Rivière
A la trace de Dieu
by Jacques Rivière
About the author
Born in Bordeaux on July 15, 1886, Jacques Rivière became one of the important literary voices of early 20th-century France. He is best known as a writer, critic, and editor, and for guiding La Nouvelle Revue française from 1919 until his death in Paris on February 14, 1925.
Rivière played a central role in French literary life after World War I. He was admired for thoughtful essays on literature and the arts, and he also helped win wider recognition for major writers of his time, including Marcel Proust. His long friendship and correspondence with Alain-Fournier are also an important part of his story.
Though his life was brief, his influence lasted well beyond it. He is often remembered less as a single-genre author than as a reader, editor, and critic whose judgment helped shape what modern French literature became.