Le Pari

Ramón María Gabriel Adeodato Fernández (1894-1944) was a French writer, journalist, and literary critic born in Paris to a Mexican diplomat father and a French mother, obtaining French nationality in 1919. Renowned for his essays on Proust, Balzac, and Molière, as well as his Prix Femina-winning novel Le Pari (1932), he contributed to La Nouvelle Revue Française and was considered one of France's leading critics in the interwar period. His career was marked by a dramatic political shift from socialism and communism to joining the fascist Parti Populaire Français in 1937 and collaborating during the Nazi occupation, including writing for collaborationist publications and meeting Joseph Goebbels. Read more →