Le Roseau d'Or
Under the Sun of Satan by Georges Bernanos | |
| Editor | Jacques Maritain |
|---|---|
| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Publisher | Plon |
| Founder | Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau |
| Founded | 1925 |
| Country | France |
| Based in | Paris |
Le Roseau d'Or was a literary magazine founded by Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau that ran from 1925 to 1932. The editors of L'Intransigeant described it as "an audacious alliance of the philosophy of Saint Thomas and of all kinds of avant-garde literature".[1][2] The magazine served as a means for Jacques Maritain to develop an international network of collaborators.[3]
History
Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau first met in 1924, while Cocteau was grieving the death of his partner Raymond Radiguet.[4] Under the influence of Jacques Maritain, Cocteau sought treatment for his opium addiction and reverted to Roman Catholicism. Maritain and Cocteau, leaders of Catholic and avant-garde literary movements respectively, then became artistic collaborators.[5] They formed a directorial board with Henri Massis and Frédéric Lefèvre with Stanislas Fumet as secretary. Jacques Maritain desired for Le Roseau d'Or to be a vehicle for the promotion of Thomism to the intellectual elite of France, competing with the Nouvelle Revue Française founded by André Gide.[5]
The magazine published poetry, philosophy, and novels. Maritain explicitly intended for Le Roseau d'Or not to be a "confessional" magazine and published Christian, Jewish, and atheist writers.[6] The name Le Roseau d'Or, "The Golden Reed", was taken from the Book of Revelation.[7]
Le Roseau d'Or was notable as a venue for LGBT Roman Catholic writers, including Julien Green, Max Jacob, and Louis Massignon,[8] in addition to Jean Cocteau himself. It also extensively published the work of Russian authors resident in France.[9] Other notable contributors included Henri Ghéon, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, G. K. Chesterton, Paul Claudel, Georges Bernanos, Nikolai Berdyaev, François Mauriac, Emmanuel Mounier, Romano Guardini, Graham Greene, Giovanni Papini, T.S. Eliot, Daisy Ashford, and Rainer Maria Rilke.[10][11]
References
- ^ Schloesser 2016, p. 185
- ^ "L'Intransigeant (12 October 1932)". p. 2.
- ^ Sanders, Mathijs (1 December 2004). "Kronieken voor een nieuwe tijd: Le Roseau d'or als cultureel brandpunt van een katholiek netwerk". Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies. 0 (16): 4. doi:10.18352/ts.187.
- ^ Schloesser, Stephen (2016). Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 179. ISBN 9780802087188.
- ^ a b Schloesser 2016, p. 180-181: "Already in March 1925, even he was just beginning his cure, Cocteau had collaborated in the foundation of Maritain's new publishing venture, the Roseau d'Or. Eventually, the directorship would number three - Maritain, Massis, and Lefevre - and a secretary, Stanislas Fumet. Like the Revue universelle, Maritain consciously intended his new venture to challenge Gide's N.R.F. as the centre of elite intellectual life. But the Roseau d'Or, a series that included monographs and novels as well as occasional collections or Chroniques, would be more overtly literary in its union of 'Thomistic thought' with the intellectual and cultural mainstreams."
- ^ Schloesser 2016, p. 181-183
- ^ Bressolette, Michel (1984). "Jacques Maritain et Le Roseau d'or". Littératures. 9 (1): 291–297. doi:10.3406/litts.1984.1292.
- ^ Schloesser 2016, p. 182-184
- ^ Millet-Gérard, Dominique (2015). "Русское присутствие во Франции 1920–1930-х гг. на страницах журнала «Золотая трость»". Новейшая история России. 5 (12): 191–202.
- ^ Schloesser 2016, p. 183-184
- ^ Sanders 2004, p. 13