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Escritos libertarios
En 1946, en París, Georges Brassens cultivó la amistad con algunos activistas anarquistas de su barrio, en concreto con el pintor Marcel Renot y con el poeta Armand Robin (de quien en Pepitas publicamos un libro extraordinario ―por su impresionante lucidez― titulado La falsa palabra), y estos encuentros decisivos, sumados a la lectura de algunos clásicos libertarios ―Bakunin, Kropotkin y Proudhon, entre otros―, llevaron a un joven Brassens a involucrarse en el movimiento anarquista y a colaborar activamente durante unos meses en Le Libertaire, el órgano de la Federación Anarquista, y también, ocasionalmente, en el boletín de la CNT en Francia. En Le Libertaire, Brassens ejerció de corrector y secretario editorial, además de redactar numerosos artículos. En ese momento, los artículos del periódico no aparecían firmados o lo hacían bajo seudónimo. Se sabe a ciencia cierta que Brassens firmó como Geo Cédille y como Gilles Colin, y aunque por el contenido y el tono hay otros muchos textos donde se intuye la pluma de Brassens, sería presuntuoso atribuírselos con certeza. Estos escritos libertarios, que por primera vez se publican en español, son, como sus canciones, un canto contra los gendarmes y los militares, contra el parlamentarismo y los políticos, contra la religión y el dinero, contra todas las formas de esclavitud e hipocresía humanas, y ponen de manifiesto el alcance contestatario, a veces violento, de la obra de un hombre que siempre huyó de los dogmas y el maniqueísmo, que vivió fiel a su compromiso con la libertad y a su rechazo del orden establecido.
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Published October 20, 2021
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Georges Brassens
67 books12 followersGeorges Charles Brassens was a French singer-songwriter and poet.
As an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics. He is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets. He has also set to music poems by both well-known and relatively obscure poets, including Louis Aragon (Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux [fr]), Victor Hugo (La Légende de la Nonne, Gastibelza), Paul Verlaine, Jean Richepin, François Villon (La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis), and Antoine Pol (Les Passantes). He a huge influence on several european songwriters as Fabrizio De Andrè, who reprised some of his songs.
During World War II, he was forced by the Germans to work in a labor camp at a BMW aircraft engine plant in Basdorf near Berlin in Germany (March 1943). Here Brassens met some of his future friends, such as Pierre Onténiente, whom he called Gibraltar because he was "steady as a rock." They would later become close friends.
After being given ten days' leave in France, he decided not to return to the labor camp. Brassens took refuge in a small cul-de-sac called "Impasse Florimont," in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, a popular district, where he lived for several years with its owner, Jeanne Planche, a friend of his aunt. Planche lived with her husband Marcel in relative poverty: without gas, running water, or electricity. Brassens remained hidden there until the end of the war five months later, but ended up staying for 22 years. Planche was the inspiration for Brassens's song Jeanne.
He wrote and sang, with his guitar, more than a hundred of his poems. Between 1952 and 1976, he recorded fourteen albums that include several popular French songs such as Les copains d'abord, Chanson pour l'Auvergnat, La mauvaise réputation, and Mourir pour des idées. Most of his texts are tinged with black humour and are often anarchist-minded.
In 1967, he received the Grand Prix de Poésie of the Académie française.
As an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics. He is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets. He has also set to music poems by both well-known and relatively obscure poets, including Louis Aragon (Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux [fr]), Victor Hugo (La Légende de la Nonne, Gastibelza), Paul Verlaine, Jean Richepin, François Villon (La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis), and Antoine Pol (Les Passantes). He a huge influence on several european songwriters as Fabrizio De Andrè, who reprised some of his songs.
During World War II, he was forced by the Germans to work in a labor camp at a BMW aircraft engine plant in Basdorf near Berlin in Germany (March 1943). Here Brassens met some of his future friends, such as Pierre Onténiente, whom he called Gibraltar because he was "steady as a rock." They would later become close friends.
After being given ten days' leave in France, he decided not to return to the labor camp. Brassens took refuge in a small cul-de-sac called "Impasse Florimont," in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, a popular district, where he lived for several years with its owner, Jeanne Planche, a friend of his aunt. Planche lived with her husband Marcel in relative poverty: without gas, running water, or electricity. Brassens remained hidden there until the end of the war five months later, but ended up staying for 22 years. Planche was the inspiration for Brassens's song Jeanne.
He wrote and sang, with his guitar, more than a hundred of his poems. Between 1952 and 1976, he recorded fourteen albums that include several popular French songs such as Les copains d'abord, Chanson pour l'Auvergnat, La mauvaise réputation, and Mourir pour des idées. Most of his texts are tinged with black humour and are often anarchist-minded.
In 1967, he received the Grand Prix de Poésie of the Académie française.
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June 15, 2025
Resulta muy divertida la mordacidad salvaje del joven Brassens en este libro, tanto que resultan inexplicable tantas puntuaciones bajas sin reseña, a no ser que la temática de los textitos escueza a algunos, ya que cumpliendo canónicamente con la tradición antiautoritaria, en estos mete cera a las fuerzas represoras (policía y militares), a la iglesia y a los comunistas.
No es un libro que vaya a cambiarte la vida, pero es divertido y breve y la traducción es buena¿qué mas se puede pedir? 😉
No es un libro que vaya a cambiarte la vida, pero es divertido y breve y la traducción es buena¿qué mas se puede pedir? 😉
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