André Blavier (born the October 23rd 1922 with Hodimont - Verviers and dead the June 12th 2001 with Verviers) was a Belgian poet of French, critical expression and scholar. He was satrap Collège of Pataphysique.
Biography
Resulting from a working-class family, André Blavier was marked by his meeting with
Raymond Queneau. He was elected with the
Oulipo as foreign correspondent in
1961. Communal librarian of
Verviers where it had been born, specialist in
Rene Magritte - of which it organized in Verviers at the beginning of the Années 1950 an exposure -, founder in
1952 of the review
Mixed Temps , André Blavier made discover na5ive painters and of avant-garde, or the painter Maurice Pirenne. Its compilation on the insane arts persons and the eccentrics of the literature is a monument. This work was published first once in
1982 by Veyrier and remained a long time untraceable before its republication, review and increased in
2000 by the editions of Ashes. It wrote in Alexandrin S a
Ode with the woman exceeding in length the Chanson of Roland. He was the creator of the Information center Raymond Queneau de Verviers, which became operational in
1976, with died of Queneau. Funny pessimist, Blavier had received in
1977 the Grand Prix of Black Humor for
Occupe you of homélies .
Walloon convinced, it signed the Manifeste for the Walloon culture in
1983. One of its last works was a
Short film of pataphysic elementary
the Night of the 6 to the 7 , carried out by
Patrice Bauduinet, with Cécile of France in the role of Eve…
(1) And also enriched by many biblio-iconographic documents coming mainly from the collections Malombra/Roger Langlais.
Works
- Catalog of the manuscripts of the library of the town of Verviers. Verviers, 1950-1960.
- Seven graphics coloured mixed , Verviers, Times, 1954 (under the name of Andre Dodet)
- the rupee of one hundred sonnets , Verviers, Times mixed, 1955
- Maurice Pirenne the painter Malvaux, 1959
- Catalog of the Funds Weber , Verviers, Administration, 1959
- Of some useful and “tolerable” Belgian inventions mixed , Verviers, Times, 1960
- Ubu rwè mètou E lidgwès , Aa Editions, 1970.
- Deals with homélies: police and educational fiction , 1976, Paris, Horse of attack. Republication with the pocket format with a foreword of Jacques Bens and a reading of Claude Debon, Brussels, Labor (collection “Northern Space”), 1991.
- Edition of Rene Magritte, Written complete , Paris, Flammarion, 1979
- the Insane arts persons , Paris, Veyrier (1982); rééd. Paris, ED. ashes, 2000
- Cinemas of district, follow-up of the Cantilena of Badly-kissed with the remembrances of the old idiotic bard, and of a Tentative conclusion , Full Song, 1985.
- evil of the country or work for (this) born , 1986.
- crossed Letters, 1949-1976 Andre Blavier, Raymond Queneau, correspondence presented and annotated by Jean-Marie Klinkenberg (1988).
- In connection with the Insane Arts persons , Editions of Ashes (2001)
- the insane arts persons , republication, Editions of Ashes (2001)
- the gift of Ubuquité , Didier Devillez Editor (1997)
- the evil of the country or work forc (in) be , Editions Yellow Now, 1993
- the night of the 6 to the 7 , with Patrice Bauduinet, Editions Yellow Now/PBC pictures, 2003
Cinema
- the Night of the 6 to the 7 (2000/2003) Site of film, short film of pataphysic elementary, Co-realization: Patrice Bauduinet, PBC pictures
Sources
- Oulipo - Bibliography of Andre Blavier
Selective bibliography
- Irene, Scut, Magritte & C° , Brussels, Museum Royal of the Art schools of Belgium, 1996, 558 p.
See too
External bonds
- Andre Blavier on Fatrazie
- Card on the site of Oulipo