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René Arcos
1880–1959
A French poet and novelist linked to the creative experiment of the Abbaye de Créteil, he wrote with a strong humanist spirit and moved in the literary world around Georges Duhamel and Romain Rolland. His life also included journalism and publishing, giving his work a feel for both ideas and lived experience.
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Das Gemeinsame
by René Arcos
About the author
Born in Clichy in 1881 and active in French literary life in the early 20th century, René Arcos became known as a poet and writer associated with the Abbaye de Créteil, the short-lived artists' community founded near Paris. Before fully choosing literature, he also studied art, which helps explain the visual, reflective quality often noted in writing from that circle.
His career stretched beyond books alone. Sources connect him with journalism during the First World War and with later publishing work, alongside friendships and collaborations in the wider humanist literary world, including figures such as Georges Duhamel and Romain Rolland.
Arcos died in 1959. Though he is not as widely remembered as some of his contemporaries, he remains an interesting voice from a moment when French writers were trying to build a more communal, idealistic culture around literature.