Eugene Guillevic

Eugene Guillevic (Carnac, Morbihan, August 5th 1907 - Paris, March 19th 1997) is one of the most important French poets of second half of the 20th century. It never signed its many collections but of sound only name, Guillevic .

Biography

It comes in the world in the stony and marine landscape from the Brittany. Then his/her father, initially marine, is made gendarme and takes along it to Jeumont (Northern) in 1909, with Saint-Jean-Brévelay (Morbihan) in 1912, with Ferrette (Haut-Rhin) in 1919.

After having passed a baccalaureat of mathematics it is received with the contest of 1926 in the administration of the Recording (Alsace, the Ardennes). Named in 1935 in Paris principal writer with the Head office with the Ministry for Finances and the Economic affairs, it is affected in 1942 with economic Control. It belongs of 1945 to 1947 to the Cabinets of the communist ministers François Billoux (Nation's economy) then Charles Tillon (Rebuilding). In 1947 after the ousting of the communist ministers, it reinstates the General inspection of the Economy where it deals in particular with studies of economic situation and town and country planning, until its retirement in 1967.

It becomes as of before war the friend of Jean Follain which introduces it into the Sagesse group. Then it belongs to the group of the École of Rochefort. Catholic practitioner until around thirty years, he becomes communist sympathizer at the time of the War of Spain, adheres in 1942 to the Communist party whereas he binds to Paul Éluard and takes part in the publications of the clandestine press (Pierre Seghers, Jean Lescure). He remains, in spite of many reserves on end of the year 60, faithful to his engagement until 1980.

After one period of resistance, of rebellion against the social order and the order of the things, outlines a return to the interrogation, an attempt to tame the world and its silence. Refusing metaphysics, it chooses here, that it explores without end, passionately. Its poetry is concise, frank like the rock, rough and generous, while remaining suggestive. Its poetic is also characterized by its refusal of the metaphors, to which he prefers the comparisons, considered to be less untrue.

Guillevic received the Grand Prix of poetry of the French Academy in 1976 and the national Grand Prix of poetry in 1984.

Extracts

When us tremblions
One against the other in the bois
At the edge of the brook,

When our corps
Became with us,

When each one of us
Belonged itself in the autre
And that together we advance,

It was then aussi
Content of the printemps

Who passed in our corps
And which knew each other

Guillevic, “Reduced” (extracted), in Sphere , Gallimard Poetry, 1963

" To live any daily event in the coordinates of eternity, it is for me the poésie"

Guillevic, “Food in Poetry” (extracted), 1980

Publications

Terraqué , Gallimard, Paris, 1942.
Elegies , with a lithography of Jean Dubuffet, the Calligrapher, Paris 1946
Trackings , Editions of Midnight, Executory Paris 1947
, Gallimard, Paris, 1947.
To gain , Gallimard, Paris, 1949.
Ground with happiness , Seghers, Paris, 1952; increased edition of Envie for living , Seghers, Paris, 1985.
31 sonnets , foreword of Aragon, Gallimard, Paris, 1954 that Guillevic did not wish to be republished.
Carnac , Gallimard, Paris, 1961.
Sphere , Gallimard, Paris, 1963.
With , Gallimard, Paris, 1966.
Euclidean , Gallimard, Paris, 1967.
City, Gallimard, Paris, 1969.
Wall , Gallimard, Paris, 1970.
brought together Notches , French Editors, Paris, 1970.
Included , Gallimard, Paris, 1973.
Of the Field, Gallimard, Paris, 1977.
Etier , poems 1965-1975, Gallimard, Paris, 1979.
Others , poems 1969-1979, Gallimard, Paris, 1980.
Perforated , poems 1973-1980, Gallimard, Paris, 1981.
Necessary , poems 1977-1982, Gallimard, Paris, 1983.
Stamps , Written Forging mills, Three-Rivers, 1986.
Reasons , poems 1981-1984, Gallimard, Paris, 1987.
Digging , poems 1977-1986, Gallimard, Paris, 1987.
Which , the perpetual Moment, Rouen, 1987
poetic Art , poem 1985-1986, Gallimard, Paris, 1989.
the Song , poem 1987-1988, Gallimard, Paris, 1990.
Now , poem 1986-1992, Gallimard, Paris, 1993.
Possible futures , poems 1982-1994, Gallimard, Paris, 1996.
Daily , poems 1994-1996, Gallimard, Paris, 2002.
Present , poems 1987-1997, Gallimard, Paris, 2004.
To connect , poems 1938-1996, Gallimard, Paris, 2007 posthumous worked out by Lucie Albertini-Guillevic, 810 p.

Several of these collections were republished in the collection of pocket Poésie/Gallimard, Paris:

Terraqué , followed Executory , foreword of Jacques Borel, 1968.
Sphere followed Carnac , 1977.
Of the Field followed Euclidean .
Etier followed Others , 1997.
poetic Art preceded by Wall and followed the Song .

Guillevic published a very great number of plates accompanied by drawings, engravings or lithographies of his/her friends painters, in particular Fernand Leger, Pignon, Dubuffet, Boris Taslitzky, Jacques Lagrange, Ubac, Beaudin, Manessier, Bazaine.

The poems of Guillevic were translated in more than forty languages of sixty countries. Guillevic itself, which learned German and the Alsatian one in his youth, is the author of translations (Goethe, Georg Trakl, Bertolt Brecht) and of adaptations of works of poets mainly of Eastern Europe.

On Guillevic

Pierre Daix, Guillevic , Poets of today, ED. Pierre Seghers, Paris, 1954.
Jean Tortel, Guillevic , new entirely altered edition, Poets of today, ED. Pierre Seghers, Paris, 1962.
Jean Dubacq, Guillevic , ED. head of Sheets, Bordeaux, 1972.
Guillevic, To live in poetry, Discussion with Lucie Albertini and Alain Vircondelet , Stock, Paris, 1980.
Guillevic/Raymond Jean, spoken Things, talks , Field Small valley, Seyssel, 1982.
Serge Gaubert (to dir.), To read Guillevic , Presses University, Lyon, 1983.
Jean Pierrot, Guillevic or gained serenity , Field Small valley, Seyssel, 1984.
Anne-Marie Mitchell, Guillevic , parallel Time, Marseilles, 1989.
Andre Frénaud - Guillevic , Europe n° 734-735, Paris, June-July 1990.
Pascal Rannou: " Guillevic: menhir with the poème" , Skol-Vreizh (Morlaix), 1991
Mr. Brophy, Eugene Guillevic , Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1993.
Guillevic/Jacques Lardoux, Humor-Terraqué, Maintenance-Readings , University Presses of Vincennes, Saint-Denis, 1997.
Bernard Fournier, Modernity of Guillevic, reflections on creation at Guillevic , University Presses of North, Villeneuve d' Asq, 2 volumes, 1997.
Jean-Paul Giraux, " A world terraqué" , review " Poets in Raincy" special issue Guillevic April 2001 - article to be consulted on http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jeanpaulgiraux/TERRAQUE.htm
Bernard Fournier, the Cry of cat-hooting, test on the lyricism of Guillevic , with an important bibliography, Harmattan, 2002.
Serge Mathurin Thébault, Guillevic, 13 poems on a meeting, with the safety of Lucie Albertini-Guillevic , inks of Aymée Darblay, Editions Gerard Guy, Marly the King, 2005.
Monique W. Labidoire, to venture with Guillevic , Editinter, Soisy-sur-Seine, 2006.
Marianne Auricoste, Guillevic, weddings of the goélan , or the proof that the best reader of Poetry is… the Love! , Harmattan, 2007.

See too

List of the Breton authors
Daniel Lefèvre inspired by Guillevic

External bond

Some notes on Guillevic

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