René Char

René Char ( born June 14, 1907 in L' Isle- sur -la -Sorgue, Vaucluse, † February 19, 1988 in Paris) was a French poet.

Life

He studied in Aix -en- Provence. In 1929 he met André Breton and Paul Éluard and joined the group of artists of the Surrealists, from which he distanced himself from the mid-1930s gradually again.

Char went 1940 into the ground and fought together with Gilbert Lely in the Resistance against the German occupation. The events in the resistance he worked on in the prose poems Feuillet d' Hypnos. In the 1960s he was active against the deployment of nuclear missiles in Provence.

1955 René Char learned the German philosopher Martin Heidegger know in Paris. He invited him, despite his former attitude toward National Socialism, several times to travel to the Provence one. So it came to the seminars in Le Thor 1966, 1968, 1969 and in Zahringen 1973. Later Char distanced himself from Heidegger.

His poetry has been translated, among others, Paul Celan, Franz Wurm and Peter Handke in German. Among his many books some of the later works is not available in German editions. He was friends with the poet Paul Eluard, the writer and philosopher Albert Camus and the historian Paul Veyne. Numerous important painters, including Juan Gris, Henri Matisse and Georges Braque illustrated manuscripts of his poems, some of which appeared on the occasion of his hundredth birthday in elaborate facsimile editions.

Works ( selection)

• Arsenal. 1929
• With André Breton and Paul Éluard: ralentir, travaux; German caution site. 1930
• Placard pour un chemin des écoliers. Illustrations, Valentine Hugo, 1937
• Dehors la nuit est gouvernée. 1938
• Seuls demeurent. 1945
• Feuillet d' Hypnos. In 1946, German. Hypnos. Records from the Maquis 1943-1944. Translator's Paul Celan. Fischer TB, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 359629570x.
• Poème pulverise. 1947
• Les matinaux. 1950
• Recherche de la base et du sommet. In 1955. Memoirs
• Poésies - seals. Preface to the German Edition: Albert Camus. 2 vols S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1959, 1968
• La Parole en archipel. 1962
• Le Nu Perdu. 1971; German: return upstream. Hanser, 1985.
• Aromates chasseurs. 1976
• Oeuvres completes. Gallimard, Collection Bibl de La Pléiade, Paris 1983, ISBN 2070110656th
• The stray hammer & First mill. Poems (Le marteau sans maître ). First, in 1934; (bilingual) Legueil, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3,980,424,766th