Armand Robin

Armand Robin , born the January 19th 1912 with Plouguernével close to Rostrenen (Coast-with Armor), dead the March 30th 1961 with Paris, was a writer French, also translator, journalist, and man of radio.

Biography

Come in the world in a family from low-Breton farmers, in Kerfloc' H in the commune of Plouguernevel (Coasts of Armor), he is the eighth child of a modest family of peasant. Its native tongue is thus the Breton and he learns French at the school.

Brilliance raises, it goes up to Paris in 1929 in order to prepare the entry with the National university. It follows there, in particular, the courses of Jean Guéhenno, Breton and of very modest origin like him, with which it will bind friendship. It fails aggregation but, stock-broker, can continue his studies of letters, learning Russian in particular.

In 1933 it accomplishes a voyage in the USSR, from where it returns completely disillusioned Communism. The same year his/her mother dies.

Starting from 1935 it starts to translate Blok, Essenine… attends the Parisian literary circles, and publishes at Gallimard My life without me , where its own poems line up at the sides of translations, and Time that it makes , lyric epopee in the landscape of its childhood.

During the Second world war, being very gifted for the languages (it will include/understand of it more than one score), it is engaged by the Ministry for the Information of the Régime of Vichy as technical collaborator with the service of listenings of radios in foreign languages and writes “bulletins of listenings”.

Various swings intervene in its life in the neighborhoods of 1942. It starts to write very militant poems on the condition of proletarian in the world, his maladjustment in the intellectual medium, with returns on its childhood. It will give up this company: it will be its good-bye with the personal literature, and it turns to the anarchistic Fédération.

It takes again its Bulletin of listenings to personal capacity in May 1944 in particular for the press resulting from resistance, Combat and Humanity .

The Release, he asks to be registered on the black list complementary to the National committee of the Writers, by rejection of the Communism which was the dominant ideology of the writers " bien-pensants" , which refused Net. " I did not lose courage, I were put on the list, all alone on a list with part" (correspondence with Marcel Laurent of the 11/18/1945). He asks thereafter to remain there while writing to the Minister for the State education; its revolt against the literary circle increases.

It of continues not less its listenings - what it will do until the end -, and publishes in 1953 distorts It word , not result of its reflection on its listenings of radios and propaganda. In same time, it continues its work of translations, which will lead to Not translated Poésie , and animates with the beginning of the year 1950 a series of bilingual radio programs on the poets of the whole world: Poetry without passport under the direction of Claude Roland-Handbook.

Its end is tragic: following a series of annoying events, it is embarked by the police force, and dies, under badly elucidated conditions, with the special infirmary of the deposit of the Police headquarter.

Part of its writings would have disappeared in the business. Its surviving poems will give place to various editions.

Work

Poetry and frays translations

My life without me (1940)

Personal poetry

undesirable Poems (1945)
Le Monde of a voice , Gallimard (1968)
Fragments , Gallimard (1992)
the cycle of the native land , the Common Share (2000)

Other translations

Poèmes of Ady , the Threshold (1946), time that it makes (1991)
Poèmes of Boris Pasternak (1946)
Four Poets Russian (1949)
not translated Poésie (1953)
not translated Poésie II (1958)
Rubayat of Omar Khayam (1958)
the strapping women Épouses of Windsor and Othello of Shakespeare (1958)
It King Lear of Shakespeare (1959)
Written forgotten II , Ubacs (1986)

Novels

Time that it makes (1942)

Transcribed radio programs

Easter celebrates joy , Calligrammes (1982)
Poésie without passport , Ubacs (1990)

Tests, articles

distorts It Parole , Minuit (1953), Time that it makes (2002) to
the man without news , time that it makes (1981)
forgotten Écrits I , Ubacs (1986)
Expertise of the false word , Ubacs (1990)

Correspondence

Letters in Jean Guéhenno, Letters with Jules Supervielle , Bookstore Nerthe (2006)

See too

List of the Breton authors

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