Jacques Réda
Encyclopedia
Jacques Réda is a French
poet, jazz critic, and flâneur
. He was chief editor of the Nouvelle Revue Française
from 1987 to 1996.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
poet, jazz critic, and flâneur
Flâneur
The term flâneur comes from the French masculine noun flâneur—which has the basic meanings of "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", "loafer"—which itself comes from the French verb flâner, which means "to stroll". Charles Baudelaire developed a derived meaning of flâneur—that of "a person who walks...
. He was chief editor of the Nouvelle Revue Française
Nouvelle Revue Française
La Nouvelle Revue Française is a literary magazine founded in 1909 by a group of intellectuals, including André Gide, Jacques Copeau, and Jean Schlumberger...
from 1987 to 1996.
Works
- Amen (1968)
- Récitatif (1970)
- Les Ruines de Paris (1977)
- L’Improviste, une lecture du jazz (1980)
- L’Herbe des talus (1984)
- Celle qui vient à pas légers (1985)
- Jouer le jeu (L’Improviste II) (1985)
- Retour au calme (1989) (Return to Calm, trans. by Aaron Prevots, 2007, Host Publications, Inc. http://www.hostpublications.com)
- Le Sens de la marche (1990)