Jean Venturini

Jean Venturini ( born September 17, 1919 in Nabeul, Tunisia, † June 17 1940 in a submarine sinking in the Mediterranean ) was a French poet.

Life

Jean Venturini spent most of his childhood in Morocco. In his youth he studied at a high school near Meknes. At the age of 16 he began to write many poems that were later collected in the book outlines and released in November 1939.

It was his only work, because he died in June 1940 along with the entire crew of the submarine Morse, which ran on a mine and exploded. Previously, he learned training as a sailor before he joined the French navy in 1939.

Outlines is a collection of poems strongly influenced by the theories of the poet Arthur Rimbaud. Stylistically and with its themes of this work is placed in the surrealist aesthetics.

Works

• Outlines, collection of poems, Casablanca, Éditions du Moghreb, November 1939, 80 pages.
• Outlines: New edition with a biographical afterword about the sinking of the submarine " Morse ", Paris, Vaillant, June 2009, 112 pages (ISBN 978-2-916986-06-7 )
• More not published in a book Poetry: Published Ballade d'un qui part, poem in the journal Fontaine in December 1939
• 40 published Une Pierre dans l' eau, poem in the magazine Grammar in May 1940
• Victime d' affiches, unpublished manuscript, June 1940 ( poem sent in a letter to a friend)