Claude Gauvreau

Claude Gauvreau ( born August 19, 1925 in Montreal, † July 7, 1971 ibid ) was a Canadian writer.

Gauvreau studied at the Jesuit Collège Sainte -Marie and to 1947 at the University of Montreal. In 1942 he came to the group of automatists around the painter Paul -Émile Borduas, in which he was active as a critic as a poet and playwright, from 1945.

1947 be " dramatic object" Bien -être with actress Muriel Guilbault was (his "muse incomparable " ) listed. In 1948 he was co-author of the manifesto of the automatists Refus global. After the suicide of Guilbault 1952, Gauvreau went to psychiatric treatment and wrote about them the Roman baroque Beauté. In 1954 he organized the last exhibition of the automatists under the title La matière chante.

Between 1952 and 1969, Gauvreau wrote numerous texts for broadcasting, in addition he wrote plays and poetry. Janou Saint- Denis La jeune fille et led 1958 la lune and Les grappes Lucides on at the École des Beaux-Arts, the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in 1972 Les oranges sont rouges and 1974 La charge de l' orignal épormyable.

To Gauvraus lifetime only volume of poetry Brochuges appeared in print. An edition of his complete works was published only in 1977. 1992 Jean Salvy wrote a scenic adaptation of Beauté baroque. 1993 his correspondence with Jean -Claude Dussault in pressure. His piece L' asile de la pureté was performed in 2003 by the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde.

Works

• Bien -être, dramatic object, 1947
• Beauté baroque, novel, 1952
• La charge de l' orignal épormyable, Drama, 1956
• La jeune fille et la lune, Drama
• Les grappes Lucides, Drama
• L' asile de la pureté, Drama
• Les Oranges sont rouges, Drama
• Brochuges, poems
• Écrits sur l'art, poetry
• Étal mixte ' et autres poèmes