Abstract: For Jean Paulhan, literature is a never-ending quest for modes of expression. His work and participation in literary life come together as a perpetual, methodological questioning, which sketches the outline of an original, personal body of writing in search of its own definition.
Keyword: Littérature française du xxe siècle, histoire littéraire, théorie littéraire, histoire de l'édition, sociologie de la littérature, critique, langage, style