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Populism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Felix Walter
Felix Walter*
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Trinity College, Toronto
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Needless to say, it is not with an American agrarian revolt of the end of last century, nor with the fortunes of a German political party that this paper is concerned, but rather with that fruitful and significant grouping of a score or more of contemporary French novelists under the banner of a common conception of the novel, its aims and appropriate media. If the name “Populism” is misleading because of certain political implications, one can at least be thankful that André Thérive and Léon Lemonnier in the consultations that preceded the launching of the new school a little over three years ago rejected labels such as “humilism” and “demotism” which might have proved even more puzzling.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , March 1934 , pp. 356 - 364
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1934

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References

1 A Literary Portrait of M. André Thérive, French Review (March, 1932).—An excellent short study of the movement as a whole was contributed by Professor Schwartz to the May, 1931, number of the same review. As far as I am aware the only other academic treatment that the subject has received on this continent is to be found in the lectures delivered recently at the University of Michigan by M. Jean E. Ehrhard on Le Roman français depuis Marcel Proust (Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Critique).

2 Léon Lemonnier, Populisme, Interview au microphone, p. 115.

3 Op. cit., pp. 127–128, 193, 199.

4 In Le Naturalisme et les Soirées de Médan (1930).

5 Le 6 Octobre and Crime de Quinette.

6 Mme. Rachilde in her review of the Genitrix of François Mauriac.

7 P. Martino, Le Naturalisme français (1923); Deffoux & Zavie, Le Groupe de Médan Léon Deffoux, Le Naturalisme (1929); Matthew Josephson, Zola and his Time (1928) Henri Barbusse, Zola (1932).

8 Henri Barbusse, Zola, pp. 290–291.

9 From a letter to Professor W. L. Schwartz quoted in his article on Populism in the French Review.

10 On an article on Populism in the Nouvelles Littéraires.

11 Lemonnier, Populisme, pp. 101–102.

12 Henri Clouard in the Revue Hebdomadaire (August 20, 1932).

13 Ibid., p. 135.

14 See in particular Thérive's article on Lemonnier in his Galerie de ce Temps (1931).

15 Lemonnier, Populisme, p. 102.

16 Barbusse, Zola, p. 291.

17 Frank C. Hanighen, “A New Literary Movement in France,” The American Bookman (September, 1931).

18 Barbusse, Zola, p. 293.

19 Lemonnier, Populisme, p. 119.

20 Ibid., p. 188.

21 Author of La petite fille aux mains sales, Sur les fortifs du paradis, Coeur triste chez les sans repos.

22 Author of Chambre à louer, Marthe femme seule.