Abstract
Memoirs, diaries and other forms of autobiographical non-fiction make up the submerged part of interwar literature. French diaries, which fill meters of shelves in many French institutions and libraries, represent a field of research that has been little explored, and a mine of potential editorial work. These obscure writings can be divided into three main categories : 1. diaries that deserve to be republished without the censorship or self-censorship (Julien Green's sexual scenes, for example) that presided over their first edition, and with attention to all the genetics of the text ; 2. monstres ", which have only been partially published, even though they can be a mine of information (Jehan Rictus, on cabaret life in the 19th century, for example), and could benefit from digitization ; 3. lastly, unknown texts, which are the work of the many diarists and epistolographers of the first half of the 20th century, sometimes poets or salonnières.
