André Blavier

André Blavier ( born October 23, 1922 in Verviers, Liege, † June 12, 2001 ) was a Belgian librarian, publicist and writer, who belonged to the circle of authors Oulipo and a follower of justifying ended by Alfred Jarry absurdist philosophy and science concept pataphysics had. For more notoriety he acquired especially through his documentaries on the life and work of the French writer Raymond Queneau.

Life

Originally from a working class family Blavier made ​​post-school vocational training as a librarian and was deported during the Second World War in 1940 as forced laborers in the German Empire. After his return to Belgium, he began in 1942 his work as a librarian in Verviers.

As such, it focuses quickly and comprehensively with the work of Raymond Queneau, the author of Le Chien Dent (1933 ) and Les Enfants du Limon (1938). Blavier decides to write a biography of Queneau, creating a long-lasting friendship develops between the two, in particular, based on the mutual spiritual bond: for example, both want to distance themselves from their words, thereby restoring the full weight of social reality. Queneau belonged in 1949 to the first signatories of the manifesto of the Collège de Pataphysique ( artist group ' Pataphysics '), which dates back to the poet and playwright Alfred Jarry. In 1950 Blavier even at the Collège de ' Pataphysique.

In 1952 he founded together with Jane Graverol the group Temps Meles and organized in the following years, conferences on the works of the poet Andrée Sodenkamp, exhibitions of works by the painter René Magritte and Maurice Pirenne, but also theater, cinema and music performances such as Concerts by Pierre Froidebise. The work of this group, he documented by the magazine La Revue Temps Meles, whose first issue was published in December 1952. He was also a member of the company founded by Queneau and François Le Lionnais circle of authors Oulipo, the particular devoted to the potential literature.

In 1965 he founded the Foundation of the Luxembourg Institute for the study of ' Pataphysics and 1976, after the death of Raymond Queneau, Raymond Queneau in Verviers the documentation center, which organized an international colloquium in honor Queneau every two years.

Publications

  • René Magritte. Suivi d'une bibliography générale par André Blavier, co-author Patrick mountain forest, Brussels 1965
  • Occupe -toi d' homélies, novel, Liege 1976
  • Les fous littéraires, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-85199-268-6
  • Lettres croisées, 1949-1976. André Blavier, Raymond Queneau: correspondance et presentee annotee par Jean -Marie Klinkenberg, Brussels, 1988, ISBN 2-804-00345-0
  • All writings. René Magritte, publishers, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-548-34301-5
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