Marcel Schneider

Marcel Schneider (11 August 1913 – 22 January 2009) was a French writer, laureate of numerous literary awards.

Biography Schneider was born in a family of Alsatian origin who chose France after 1871. An agrégé es letters, he taught in Rouen (Jean Lecanuet was among his students), before devoting himself entirely to literature and music. He came to live in Paris and became a member of the publishing house Grasset.

Both as a writer and as a historian of literature, he was an adept of fantastic literature. He recognized three masters in the fantastic field: Charles Nodier, Gérard de Nerval and Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann.

His works were published by Schubert and Wagner and traced the history of the ballet since Louis XIV.

A sympathizer of the Action française, he was close to writers as different as André Gide, Georges Dumézil and Paul Morand who bequeathed him his wardrobe. He also attended literary salons including those of Marie-Laure de Noailles, Solange de La Baume, Josette Day and Florence Gould.

In the 1980s, he regularly wrote in Le Quotidien de Paris , founded and directed by Philippe Tesson.

He was close to friends such as , Henri Sauguet and and used to publish in Brenner's Les Cahiers des Saison (1953–1962).

Schneider was awarded the 1996 prix de la langue française.

He is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (45th division).

Memoirs Schneider published his memoirs in the form of a diary in the following order: 1989: L'Éternité fragile, Paris, Éditions Grasset 1991: Innocence et Vérité, Grasset 1992: Le Palais des mirages, Grasset, 1993: Le Goût de l'absolu, Grasset 2001: Les Gardiens du secret, Grasset, Prix Ève Delacroix