Charles Juliet

Charles Juliet , born the September 30th 1934 with Jujurieux in the Ain, is a poet, playwright and writer French.

Biography

Following the internment of his/her mother in a psychiatric hospital (it had made an suicide attempt), Charles Juliet is placed in three months in a family of Swiss peasants whom it will not leave any more. The internment of his/her mother and the attitude of her father towards him will mark forever. He is traumatisé and is afraid to lose his adoptive mother again. He has a great need for love which he will obtain from his adoptive mother but also from his adoptive sisters. He will go to the burial of his mother at age approximately the ten years, died of hunger during the war, in the asylum which did not nourish any more interned. At twelve years, it enters a military academy of Aix of which it will arise to twenty, to be allowed at the School of Military Health of Lyon. Three years later, it gives up its studies of medicine to devote itself exclusively to the writing.

He works fifteen years in loneliness before seeing appearing its first book, Fragments prefaced by Georges Haldas ( Meurtre or sacrifice ). Of these " years lentes" also important meetings with other artists go up (Michel Leiris, Bram van Velde, Ubac, Pierre Soulages, Samuel Beckett…). He lives in Lyon in the 2nd district. He receives the recognition of the public with the year of the awakening , account fictionalized of his experiment of child reared by the army. He also publishes in editions P.O.L important a personal Journal in several volumes.

Its poems and other works are translated into German, Spanish, Italian, English (E.U.), Polish, Japanese, Vietnamese, Turkish, Korean, Chinese…

Discussions with Charles Juliet and of the article devoteds to its works are appeared in the national newspapers: Le Monde, Le Figaro, Nouvel Observateur, the Express train, the Point, the Event of Thursday, the Cross. , like in reviews and magazines.

Extracts of its works appear in school handbooks. Charles Juliet carried out several series of emissions to France-Culture and two radiophonic parts were diffused on the antennas of this station.

" Lambeaux" , autobiographical work, learns some to us much on the personality from Charles Juliet; he sees himself like a beginner, since he names the " néophyte" in a passage of the novel or it reflects on the difficulties which it encounters at the time of the writing. It is:

demanding in its work,
perfectionist because it always needs to better do,
persevering: the obstacles do not frighten him; it does not stop with the difficulties.
because it states a difficulty of writing: the fear of the white page, it tests an absence of creation and of productivity besides, its attitudes and feelings translate this difficulty, anything does not interest it, idea of saturation, dislike.

Moreover, one tough need for writing the enjoint to continue. However, Juliet tends to be underestimated; it is devalued and minimized because according to him, it has " a requirement too much haute" who involves it to doubt his own means and capacities. It does not rely on him, in its talent, feels lower than the writers than it admires. In his book, Charles Juliet analyzes in an honest way, makes us reflect on the difficulties of writing in general and also brings a reflection on the autobiography: difficulties in expressing with words what one feels and the recall of sometimes painful memories.

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