Jean Paulhan (1884-1968) is renowned in France both for his unrivaled skill as an editor and for his own subtle yet incisive writings. Paulhan directed the Nouvelle Revue Franaise for thirty years, helping to make it into the foremost literary journal of his generation. Many of the most celebrated French writers of the period--Artaud, Bataille, Blanchot, Caillois, Camus, Giono, and Ponge, to name only a few--owe their rise to literary prominence in...