Micheline Tison-Braun

Micheline Lucie Tison-Braun ( Tison; born 7 April 1913) is a French academic. Originally a broadcaster for the BBC during World War II, she was originally a teacher at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and the Lycée Français de Londres before moving to the United States to become a United Nations official. She worked as a full professor at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a teacher at the Lycée Français de New York and École libre des hautes études.

She wrote several books in fields such as literary studies and art history, including La crise de l'humanisme (1958, 1967), Nathalie Sarraute ou la Recherche de l'authenticité (1971), Tristan Tzara (1977), Poétique du paysage (1980), L'Introuvable origine (1981), Ce monstre incomparable: Malraux ou l'énigme du moi (1983), Marguerite Duras (1985), and Le Moi décapité (1990). She was a 1978 Guggenheim Fellow and won the in 1984. Biography Micheline Lucie Tison was born on 7 April 1913 in Arras, daughter of Lucie (née Duchat) and industrialist Eugène Tison, and she attended the Collège de jeunes filles d'Arras. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study on the crisis of personality in French literature from 1890 to 1970". and she was appointed an Officier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques. She lived in the Upper West Side. Nathalie Sarraute ou la Recherche de l'authenticité (1971) Dada et Surréalisme (1973) Poétique du paysage: Essai sur le genre descriptif (1980) L'Introuvable origine: Le Problème de la personnalité au seuil du XXe siècle: Flaubert, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Valéry, Bergson, Claudel, Gide, Proust (1981) Ce monstre incomparable: Malraux ou l'énigme du moi (1983) Marguerite Duras (1985) Le Moi décapité: le problème de la personnalité dans la littérature française contemporaine (1990) L'Esprit créateur (1991)