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Robert Aron
Robert Aron (/ɑːˈrɒn/; French: [ʁɔbɛʁ aʁɔ̃]; 25 May 1898 – 19 April 1975) was a French historian and writer who wrote several books on politics and European history.
Robert Aron was born in Le Vésinet on 25 May 1898 to an upper-class Jewish family from eastern France.:132 He attended the Lycée Condorcet and served in the French Army during World War I. He was wounded in action in 1918.
In 1922, while at university studying for a degree in Languages and Classics, Aron was the President of the Cercle International d'Etudiants.:132 In this role he organised a series of lectures focused on avant-garde literature, music, film and painting. Among the participants were Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie. The series' success attracted the attention the Nouvelle Revue Française, a literary magazine, where he was invited to join the staff as an editor, a position he remained in for many years.:132 After university he joined the Éditions Gallimard publishing house where he was briefly secretary to Gaston Gallimard. He also worked as a film critic for the magazine La Revue du Cinéma, and wrote about politics in the foreign service for the Revue des Deux Mondes.
His interest in avant-garde literature and art and its most modern and provocative expressions during the interwar period, was the impetus behind the creation, together with Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac, of the Théâtre Alfred Jarry. Aron primarily worked as a producer for the theatre, which mounted four productions from 1926-1928. His experience left him questioning the revolutionary attributes of art. In a response to a disruption of theatre's production of Strindberg's A Dream Play by members of the Surrealist movement, Aron wrote
the Surrealists, whatever attributes they may have, by remaining within the literary or artistic domain, incur no risks except that which is most sought after as a consecration of their childish acts, namely a short stay in the police cells.
For Aron, the work of the Théâtre Alfred Jarry, 'provoked the only dangerous and disturbances of a Surrealist nature' in the last two years, and were almost 'Revolutionary disturbances'.
In 1927, he became reacquainted with a fellow former student of the Lycée Condorcet, Arnaud Dandieu. Their work together in political and philosophical research spawned three works in the early 1930s: Décadence de la Nation Française (1931), Le Cancer Américain (1931) and La Révolution Nécessaire (1933). Those works constituted the principal theoretical base on which he created the group "Ordre Nouveau" (The New Order) in 1929, and its literary magazine Esprit represented one of the most original expressions of the Nonconformist Movement during the 1930s. Closely collaborating with Dandieu until his death in 1933, Aron took a very active part in all of the activities of Ordre Nouveau until its end in 1938. Thereafter, Aron's activities and viewpoints would be influenced by those experiences.
In 1940, the advent of World War II interrupted his editorial work at the Nouvelle Revue Française. In 1941 he was arrested in one of the Nazis' first anti-semitic operations and held in the Mérignac camp near Bordeaux. After being released, he was not allowed to travel to Paris and instead moved to Lyon, where he became involved, through his friend Jean Rigaut, in preparations for the AAllied invasion of North Africa.
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Robert Aron
Robert Aron (/ɑːˈrɒn/; French: [ʁɔbɛʁ aʁɔ̃]; 25 May 1898 – 19 April 1975) was a French historian and writer who wrote several books on politics and European history.
Robert Aron was born in Le Vésinet on 25 May 1898 to an upper-class Jewish family from eastern France.:132 He attended the Lycée Condorcet and served in the French Army during World War I. He was wounded in action in 1918.
In 1922, while at university studying for a degree in Languages and Classics, Aron was the President of the Cercle International d'Etudiants.:132 In this role he organised a series of lectures focused on avant-garde literature, music, film and painting. Among the participants were Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie. The series' success attracted the attention the Nouvelle Revue Française, a literary magazine, where he was invited to join the staff as an editor, a position he remained in for many years.:132 After university he joined the Éditions Gallimard publishing house where he was briefly secretary to Gaston Gallimard. He also worked as a film critic for the magazine La Revue du Cinéma, and wrote about politics in the foreign service for the Revue des Deux Mondes.
His interest in avant-garde literature and art and its most modern and provocative expressions during the interwar period, was the impetus behind the creation, together with Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac, of the Théâtre Alfred Jarry. Aron primarily worked as a producer for the theatre, which mounted four productions from 1926-1928. His experience left him questioning the revolutionary attributes of art. In a response to a disruption of theatre's production of Strindberg's A Dream Play by members of the Surrealist movement, Aron wrote
the Surrealists, whatever attributes they may have, by remaining within the literary or artistic domain, incur no risks except that which is most sought after as a consecration of their childish acts, namely a short stay in the police cells.
For Aron, the work of the Théâtre Alfred Jarry, 'provoked the only dangerous and disturbances of a Surrealist nature' in the last two years, and were almost 'Revolutionary disturbances'.
In 1927, he became reacquainted with a fellow former student of the Lycée Condorcet, Arnaud Dandieu. Their work together in political and philosophical research spawned three works in the early 1930s: Décadence de la Nation Française (1931), Le Cancer Américain (1931) and La Révolution Nécessaire (1933). Those works constituted the principal theoretical base on which he created the group "Ordre Nouveau" (The New Order) in 1929, and its literary magazine Esprit represented one of the most original expressions of the Nonconformist Movement during the 1930s. Closely collaborating with Dandieu until his death in 1933, Aron took a very active part in all of the activities of Ordre Nouveau until its end in 1938. Thereafter, Aron's activities and viewpoints would be influenced by those experiences.
In 1940, the advent of World War II interrupted his editorial work at the Nouvelle Revue Française. In 1941 he was arrested in one of the Nazis' first anti-semitic operations and held in the Mérignac camp near Bordeaux. After being released, he was not allowed to travel to Paris and instead moved to Lyon, where he became involved, through his friend Jean Rigaut, in preparations for the AAllied invasion of North Africa.