Summary: Paul Auguste Marie Adam, born December 7, 1862 in Paris where he died January 2, 1920, is a French writer and art critic. Coming from a family of industrialists and soldiers from Artois, son of a Postmaster General under the Second Empire, Paul Adam studied at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris before embarking on a literary career. in 1884, he collaborated with La Revue Indépendant before publishing in Belgium his first novel, Chair molle (1885), which was accused of immorality, caused scandal and earned the young author a suspended prison sentence of fifteen days and a Heavy fine. Abandoning naturalism, Paul Adam turned to symbolism. He contributes to various magazines linked to this movement, animates Le Symboliste and La Vogue and founded Le Carcan with Paul Ajalbert. In 1886, he collaborated with Jean Moréas in Le Thé chez Miranda and Les Demoiselles Goubert and published an intimate novel, Soi. Its notoriety is established with the novel Being (1888).

Books of Paul Adam