An atypical critic, Pierre Lièvre (1882-1939) proudly appropriated, in the 1920s, the epithet amateur, a term to whose enhancement, as Valery Larbaud had done before him, he contributed. His method was to judge purely according to his pleasure, and he created his own writing form, to which he gave the name of sketch, a kind of brief study which was by definition unfinished and focused on a writer’s individual quality.