Roger Gilbert-Lecomte

Roger Lecomte ( born May 18, 1907 in Reims, † December 31, 1943 in Paris ) was an avant-garde French poet. He called himself Roger Gilbert - Lecomte.

Life

Gilbert - Lecomte was a founder of the group Le Grand Jeu and the 1928-1932 appeared the same literary and philosophical journal.

Lecomte died from tetanus infection due to dirty needles, in connection with its experimental drug experiences. He is buried in Reims.

His independent work has been long perceived at best as a footnote to the history of French Surrealism. In recent years it has been rediscovered and republished, in English and American translations.

Works (selection)

• Posts in: Le Grand Jeu (No. 1-3) ( 1928-1930 )
• Le Grand Jeu n ° 1 à 4, 1928-1932. Editions Jean -Michel Place, Paris 1977. (No. 4 is a retrospective compilation of texts )
• La Vie, l' Amour, la Mort, Le Vide et le Vent. (1933 )
• Le Miroir noir. (1937 )
• Testament. (1955)
• Monsieur Morphée empoisonneur public. (1966, new edition 2011)
• Arthur Rimbaud. (1971)
• Correspondance. (1971)
• Tétanos mystique. (1972)
• Oeuvres completes. ( 2 volumes, 1974-1977 )
• Neuf Hai Kai. (1977 )
• Poèmes et chroniques retrouvés. (1982)
• Black Mirror. Selected Poems. (1991) ( Bilingual French and English edition, with a foreword by Antonin Artaud )
• Mes chers petits éternels. (1992)
• Roger Gilbert - Lecomte, Léon Pierre -Quint: Correspondance 1927-1939. (2011)
• Le Grand Jeu. A selection. Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-923211-13-5. ( online ( pdf) )