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DANS L'ATELIER DU POETE

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"Les poèmes sont des "bouts d'existence", fruits d'une furieuse bataille dont brouillons ou manuscrits gardent la trace. Mais qu'en était-il de leur existence, avant leur publication en recueil ?C'est le fil que l'on déroule ici : celui de la création, de l'état primitif des poèmes qui paraissent en revue, en plaquettes à tirage limité pour renaître sous un nouveau titre, kidnappés d'un volume, transformés dans un autre. Enfance, premiers écrits, adhésion au mouvement surréaliste, Résistance - autant de moments où Char se révolte et, au coeur du combat, forge ses mots et tisse ses alliances. Une histoire des poèmes imbriquée dans la vie du poète dans un parcours chronologique qui respecte le souci constant de Char de protéger l'intimité de son être.À cet "artisanat furieux" de celui qui oeuvre dans son atelier se joignent les peintres, auxquels Char confie le soin d'enluminer ses textes. Des échanges de correspondance avec les philosophes, les poètes, les écrivains : Blanchot, Camus, Éluard, Gracq, Lely, Saint-John Perse ; avec les peintres, dont on trouvera les oeuvres reproduites : Braque, Brauner, Giacometti, Valentine Hugo, Wifredo Lam, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Nicolas de Staël, Vieira da Silva... scandent ce cheminement.Dans l'atelier du poète évoque ce trajet de vie dans le foyer incandescent de la poésie."Marie-Claude Char.

1064 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 1996

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René Char

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René Char spent his childhood in Névons, the substantial family home completed at his birth, then studied as a boarder at the school of Avignon and subsequently, in 1925, a student at L'École de Commerce de Marseille, where he read Plutarch, François Villon, Racine, the German Romantics, Alfred de Vigny, Gérard de Nerval and Charles Baudelaire.

His first book, Cloches sur le cœur was published in 1928 as a compilation of poems written between 1922 and 1926. In late November 1929, Char moved to Paris, where he met Louis Aragon, André Breton, and René Crevel, and joined the surrealists. He remained active in the surrealist movement through the early 1930s but distanced himself gradually from the mid-1930s onward. Throughout his career, Char's work appeared in various editions, often with artwork by notable figures, including Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque, Miró, Matisse and Vieira da Silva.

Char was a friend and close associate of Albert Camus, Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot among writers, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Nicolas de Staël, Georges Braque and Victor Brauner among painters. He was to have been in the car involved in the accident that killed both Camus and Gallimard, but there was not enough room, and returned instead that day by train to Paris.

The composer Pierre Boulez wrote three settings of Char's poetry, Le Soleil des eaux, Le visage nuptial, and Le marteau sans maître. A late friendship developed also between Char and Martin Heidegger, who described Char's poetry as "a tour de force into the ineffable" and was repeatedly his guest at La Thor in the Vaucluse.

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