Le Grand Jeu

Le Grand Jeu (French for "The Great Game") was a French avant-garde literary magazine and the name of the group associated with it. The group was active chiefly in Paris from 1927 to 1932. Three issues appeared, in June 1928, spring 1929 and autumn 1930; proofs and other material prepared for a fourth issue were published with a reprint of the magazine in 1977. The group grew out of the Phrères Simplistes, formed in Reims in 1922 by René Daumal, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Roger Vailland and Robert Meyrat. Its principal Paris members were Daumal, Gilbert-Lecomte, Vailland, the poet and essayist André Rolland de Renéville, and the Czech painter Josef Šíma. Vailland proposed the title. Roger Caillois later connected it with Rudyard Kipling's Kim and with the group's interest in India, saying that the colonial "great game" had become a figure for metaphysical research.

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Le Grand Jeu ceased publication in 1932. Back issues are often held by research libraries and digital archives.