Jacques Prevel

Jacques Marie Prevel (July 27, 1915 in Bolbec – May 27, 1951 in Sainte-Feyre) was a French poet. His real first name was Jacques, but he added 'Marie' not to be mistaken with Jacques Prévert, whose surname is pronounced in a very similar way. During the German occupation he lived in the famous Parisiene district Saint-Germain-des-Près.

Among his friends were the members of the Le Grand Jeu movement, René Daumal and Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, and also Antonin Artaud. Prevel considered Artaud his master, but Artaud admired Prevel's writings as well - he wrote about him (often "more portraying himself" ^[1]) and dictated his visions to him. Prevel also supplied Artaud with laudanum and opium. Prevel died of tuberculosis in the Sainte-Peyre hospital in the arms of his second love Jany.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

Poetry

"It will be essential to work until the end of times, to find again the Gesture and the Word.".^[1]

• Poèmes mortels (1945); Mortal poems
• Poèmes pour toute mémoire (1947); Poems for all the memory
• De colère et de haine (1950); From rage and hatred
• En dérive vers l’absolu (1952); On the crossroad to the absolute, posthumously

Diary

• En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud (1974); In the company of Antonin Artaud, posthumously

References

External links

• Short info and photo, in French

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