RENé CHAR

'René Char' (June 14, 1907 – February 19, 1988) was a 20th century French poet.

Contents

Biography

Bibliography

Trivia

Further reading

References

External Links

Biography

Born in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse departement of France, he died in 1988, in Paris. In 1929 he met André Breton and Paul Éluard and joined the surrealist group but distanced himself gradually from the mid 1930s on.
Char joined the Résistance in 1940. He wrote about these events in his prose poems ''Feuillets d'Hypnos'' in an extraordinary manner. In the 1960s he joined the battle against the stationing of Atomic weapons in the Provence.

Bibliography

★ ''Arsenal'' (1929).

★ ''Ralentir Travaux'' (1930 - in collaboration with André Breton and Paul Eluard).

★ ''Artine'' (1930).

★ ''Le marteau sans maître'' (1934).

★ ''Seuls demeurent'' (1943).

★ ''le Poème pulvérisé'' (1945).

★ ''Feuillets d'Hypnos'' (1946).

★ ''Fureur et mystère'' (1948).

★ ''Les Matinaux'' (1950).

★ ''A une sérénité crispée'' (1951).

★ ''Recherche de la base et du sommet'' (1955).

★ ''La Parole en archipel'' (1962).

★ ''Dans la pluie giboyeuse'' (1968).

★ ''Le Nu perdu'' (1971).

★ ''Aromates chasseurs'' (1976).

★ ''Chants de la Balandrane'' (1977).

★ ''Fenêtres dormantes et porte sur le toit'' (1979).

★ ''Les voisinages de Van Gogh'' (1985).

★ ''Éloge d'une soupçonnée'' (1988).
The ''Œuvres complètes'' were published in the ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade'', Gallimard, in 1983 (introduction by Jean Roudaut).

Trivia

Among the translators of his hermetic poems are Paul Celan, Peter Handke and Susanne Dubroff. Char was a friend of Albert Camus.^[1]
The composer Pierre Boulez wrote three settings of Char's poetry, ''Le Soleil des eaux'', ''Le visage nuptial'', and ''Le Marteau sans Maitre''.

Further reading

★ Ralentir Travaux: Slow Under Construction, Exact Change,U.S. 1992

★ Selected Poems of Rene Char, New Directions Publishing Corporation 1992

References

1. http://www.citedulivre-aix.com/Typo3/fileadmin/documents/RendezVous/juin-juillet/Bulletin_Mejanes-juin_juill_2007.pdf

External Links

★ New Translations of Rene Char, by Nancy Naomi Carlson in Guernica Magazine