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Created by Romain RollandRomain Rolland
Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.-Biography:...
and a group of French writers, the literary magazine Europe began on 15 February 1923. It is still published by Éditions Rieder.
In its first issue, René Arcos, the journal first editor in chief, explained the choice of the journal's title : "We speak of Europe because our vast peninsula, between the East and the New World, is the crossroads where civilisations meet. But it is to all the peoples that we address ourselves [...] in the hope of averting the tragic misunderstandings which currently divide mankind."
Jean Guéhenno
Jean Guéhenno
Marcel-Jules-Marie Guéhenno, known as Jean Guéhenno was a French essayist, writer and literary critic....
was the next chief editor, from 1929 until 1936, followed by Jean Cassou
Jean Cassou
Jean Cassou was a French writer, art critic, poet and member of the French Resistance during World War II.- Biography :Jean Cassou was born at Deusto, near Bilbao,...
from 1936 until 1939.
Until 1939, when it was suspended on the announcement of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Europe followed the Communists in the anti-Fascist struggle.
In 1946, it was revived due to the efforts of Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon , was a French poet, novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt.- Early life :...
, who published it through La Bibliothèque française, absorbed in 1949 into the publishing company Les Éditeurs français réunis. Pierre Abraham
Pierre Abraham
Pierre Abraham, was a French journalist and encyclopedist and military figure in the French Air Force during the world wars.-Biography:...
then became its director, and he was until his death in 1974. Pierre Gamarra
Pierre Gamarra
Pierre Gamarra was a French writer. He was a poet and novelist, but also a literary critic....
succeeded him, having acted as editor-in-chief for more than twenty years. In 2009 Charles Dobzynski became director while Jean-Baptiste Para remained chief editor of the magazine.
From the 1950s onward, Europe appeared in the form of special themed issues, and became a literary review which doubled as a reference work.
Europe has published works by authors as diverse as Aragon, Jean-Richard Bloch
Jean-Richard Bloch
Jean-Richard Bloch was a French writer .He was a member of the French Communist Party and worked with Louis Aragon in the evening daily Ce soir.- Literary works :...
, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and physician Louis-Ferdinand Destouches . Céline was chosen after his grandmother's first name. He is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both French and...
, Emile Danoën
Emile Danoën
Emile Danoën was a French journalist and novelist.Danoën was born Emile Orvoën, to Peter and Leonie Le Doze at Moëlan-sur-Mer in Finistère, Brittany, but he grew up in the seamen's hostel run by his parents in the district of Saint-François in Le Havre.During the Second World War, he moved to...
, Jean Giono
Jean Giono
Jean Giono was a French author who wrote works of fiction set in the Provence region of France.-First period:...
, Panaït Istrati
Panait Istrati
Panait Istrati was a Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in his work.-Early life:...
, Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
or Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement...
, for example.
There is also an Association des Amis d'Europe which aims to develop cultural life, principally of the literary kind, "in a spirit of openness and hospitality and in the humanistic tradition which has characterised Europe since its foundation.
Sources
- Europe, une revue de culture internationale, 1923-1998. Colloquium of 27 March 1998, salle Louis Liard, at the Sorbonne.
- Stavroula Constantopoulou, La Fonction de la littérature et le rôle de l'écrivain selon la revue Europe de 1923 à 1939, doctoral thesis under the supervision of Henri Béhar, submitted at Paris III on 19 December 1996, 585 pp.
- Philippe Niogret, La revue Europe et les romans français de l'entre-deux-guerres (1923-1939), L'Harmattan, 2004.