Georges Limbour

Georges Limbour , (1900 - 1970). Writer, French poet. Regent of poetic and polar Ocupodonomie of the College of' Pataphysique.

Biography

Georges Limbour, born with Courbevoie on August 11th 1900, makes his studies in Le Havre where was transferred his/her father, soldier, and in which his/her mother is originating. He binds to it to Jean Dubuffet, Armand Salacrou, Pierre Bost, Raymond Queneau and Jean Piel. He will remain marked by the fascination of the sea. Limbour starts to write in 1915.

In October 1918 it comes to Paris, with Jean Dubuffet, to prepare a license of Philosophy, which it obtains in October 1923. Incorporated meanwhile in 1920 it makes with the barracks the Turn-Maubourg the knowledge of Marcel Arland and André Dhôtel, Roger Vitrac and Rene Crevel. It ties in 1922 a durable friendship with the painter André Masson, whom Dubuffet makes him meet. He attends his 45 rue Blomet workshop assiduously where he meets Roland Tual, Michel Leiris, Antonin Artaud, the painter André Beaudin. In 1923 his/her companions of the Turn-Maubourg lead it street Fontaine, at André Breton, with which it prefers Louis Aragon. Wanting to safeguard the miraculous peace of the street Blomet , Limbour avoids the meeting held on the two groups. It takes part in the following years in the surrealist movement, collaborating in the review " Documents" of Georges Bataille with Leiris and Masson, until its rupture with Breton in 1930, through the leaflet " A cadavre" that it signs with Ribemont-Dessaignes, Prévert, Queneau, Desnos, Vitrac and Bataille.

Limbour in January 1924 leaves as journalist the army to the Rhineland, that its provocative behavior obliges it to leave the same year. It then leaves France to teach philosophy with Koritza, in Albania, then in Egypt, of 1926 to 1929, and Warsaw. Named in Parthenay in 1938, it finds his friends, binds with Genevieve and Gaetan Picon, is mobilized then released with the armistice. Of return to Parthenay, it is made some expel by the authorities of occupation. He teaches later in Dieppe (1943-1955), returning visit with Georges Braque, finally in Paris, the College Jean-Baptiste Say (where he still comes by motor bike). He frequently spends his holidays to Spain, which constitutes the backdrop of two of its novels, the Magpie robber and Hunting to the mérou , but accomplishes also two voyages to Cuba in 1967, with Maurice Nadeau, Michel Leiris and Peverelli, and 1968.

In 1943 Limbour presents Dubuffet, whose work is still confidential, to Jean Paulhan, meets which will appear decisive in the career of the painter. Beyond its texts on Dubuffet (which will make its portrait in 1946 many times) and on Masson, Limbour written from 1944 of very many articles and forewords (sometimes under pseudonyms: Garance, Antimony Rest, Andre Lacombe) on the painters, hold of the chronicles (in particular in the Spectator of Arts of which it is for a single directing number in 1944, Arts of France , Modern times , Books of the Pleiad , the Eye , Arts , New Letters , Mercure de France , Critique , Cahiers of the College of 'Pataphysique , Botteghe oscure , Behind the Mirror ) or of the newspapers ( the Express train , France-Observer ). These texts remain still largely dispersed. Georges Limbour liked passionately the opera, the voyages, the motor cycle, the ski, underwater fishing, swimming.

It is while swimming that he died, on a beach of Cadiz, killed by the sun and the sea (...) by these two forces which he venerated more than all in the world (Andre Masson), it (22) May 1970.

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