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4 avril 2017
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Joanny Moulin, « André Maurois, or the Aesthetic Advantage of Biography over the Novel », Les grandes figures historiques dans les lettres et les arts, ID : 10.54563/gfhla.247
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André Maurois (1885-1967) is today a largely forgotten French writer, and somewhat unjustly so, or rather for a reason that pertains more to French literary history than the intrinsic literary value of his oeuvre. In 1918, in his preface to Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey wrote: ‘The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England. We have had, it is true, a few masterpieces, but we have never had, like the French, a great biographical tradition; we have had no Fontenelles and …