Pierre Larthomas Explained

Pierre Henri Larthomas (4 June 1915 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande – 8 July 2000) was a French theatre theorist.^[1] Larthomas entered the French Army in 1930 as a cadet officer and in the spring of 1940 was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Shortly thereafter he was taken prisoner and spent the next five years in German administered POW camps. It was during that period that he began to write. After WWII he was a schoolmaster at Lycees in Bordeaux and Paris.

Works

• 1948: Rencontre: roman , Paris, Rene Julliard, 1948
• 1951: Solitaire, Boston, Houghton Mifflin.
• 1965: Le Supplément du Dictionnaire critique de Féraud, Le Français Moderne, 33: 241-55
• Le Langage dramatique, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1972, 1997 et 2012,
• 1966: Eugénie, collection Espace théâtre, Espaces 34,
• 1997: La Technique du théâtre, Que sais-je ?, Presses universitaires de France,
• 1998: Notions de stylistique générale, Linguistique nouvelle, Presses universitaires de France,
• 1999: Le Mariage de Figaro, Folio, European Schoolbooks,

External links

• Pierre Lathomas on Babelio
• Pierre Larthomas (1915-2000) on Persée
• Le Langage dramatique sur PUF

Notes and References

1. L'information grammaticale. N. 88, p. 60