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Pierre Eugène Drieu La Rochelle (French: [dʁjø la ʁɔʃɛl]; 3 January 1893 – 15 March 1945) was a French writer of novels, short stories, and political essays. He was born, lived and died in Paris.
Pierre Eugène Drieu la Rochelle, né le 3 janvier 1893 dans le 10 e arrondissement de Paris [1] et mort par suicide le 15 mars 1945 dans le 17 e arrondissement de Paris, est un écrivain français.
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (born Jan. 3, 1893, Paris, France—died March 16, 1945, Paris) was a French writer of novels, short stories, and political essays whose life and works illustrate the malaise common among European youth after World War I.
Pierre Drieu la Rochelle was a contradictory figure, whose career shifted from avant-gardist poet and writer after World War I to proponent of Fascism and Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s. Traumatized by his experience of World War I, he joined close friend and fellow poet Louis Aragon in the burgeoning French Dada movement.
Pierre Drieu la Rochelle was known for his ceaseless analysis of politics in both his life and work. He began his writing career after World War I with two poetry collections reflecting his obsession with the Nietzschean concept of responsibility.
French writer. Along with Robert Brasillach (1909–1945) and Louis-Ferdinand Céline (pseudonym of Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, 1894–1961), Pierre Drieu la Rochelle is undoubtedly the French writer who best exemplifies certain French intellectuals' swerve toward fascism, anti-Semitism, and collaboration with the Nazi occupiers.
A French novelist and essayist of the inter‐war period, Drieu la Rochelle was imbued with a sense of the decadence of contemporary society, which led him into a variety ... From: Drieu la Rochelle, Pierre in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French ». Subjects: Literature.
