Europe (magazine)
Europe is a French literary magazine founded in 1923.
History
Created by Romain Rolland and a group of French writers,[1] 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 was the next chief editor, from 1929 until 1936, followed by Jean Cassou 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, who published it through La Bibliothèque française, absorbed in 1949 into the publishing company Les Éditeurs français réunis. Pierre Abraham then became its director, and he was until his death in 1974. Pierre Gamarra 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, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Emile Danoën, Jean Giono, Panaït Istrati, Rabindranath Tagore or Tristan Tzara, 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.
Notes and References
- ^ Most of the founding members also belonged to the Abbaye de Créteil group.
See also
- Pierre Gamarra, director of Europe until 2009.