Jacques Rigaut

Writer Dadaïste French born in 1898 and died in 1929.

Biography

Initially raises shining with the Lycée Montaigne where it obtains a price of recitation and French, it becomes passable and dissipated with the Louis-the-Large Lycée and points out itself by its excentricité.

In December 1916, it precedes the call and engages in the army. Initially affected to the automobile service in Paris, it leaves to the face, to Lorraine, with the beginning of the year 1918. After the armistice, it remains under the flags until the end of 1919. Of return to Paris, it starts to attend the literary circles and becomes the friend of Drieu La Rochelle who will make the hero of of them the Bag empties , then Will-o'-the-wisp and of the Good-bye with Gonzague . It meets the painter society man Jacques-Emile Blanche who engages it as secretary.

Its first writings, Amorphous Remarks , are published in 1920 whereas it comes into contact with the members of the Dada group.

Dandy without money, alive in his parents, he becomes a large consumer of opium, Cocaïne and Héroïne. In 1922, it joined Tristan Tzara and leaves the surréalistes.

In 1924, it meets Gladys Barber, a fortunate American young person whom it follows to New York. It returns to Paris a little later before setting out again for New York at the beginning of 1925. He marries Gladys Barber in January 1926, but she leaves it quickly, wearied her Toxicomanie. He lives misérablement on New York until November 1928, date to which he returns to Paris and takes again a fashionable life in a house lent by surrealist the Paul Chadourne. He begins a series of cures of désintoxications.

November 6th, 1929, in a convalescent home of Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine), called “the House with the wolves” Jacques Rigaut commits suicide of a drawn ball into full cœur.

Glance on Works

Jacques Rigaut is with many regards a precursor of a form of fragmentary writing. One will see it in particular in the publication of his aphorisms in the review " Little review" in 1923.

Works

Lord Patchogue . The New French Review n°203, August 1930, Paris.
Posthumous Papers . Without Similar, February 1934, Paris.
General Agency of the Suicide . J.J. Pauvert, 1959, Paris.
General Agency of the Suicide . Loesfeld, 1967, Paris.
Written . Edition established and presented by Martin Kay. N.R.F. Gallimard, 1970, Paris.
And then shit! , Paul Chadourne - Pierre Drieu La Rochelle - Jacques Rigaut, Booksellers Between the Lines, 1998, Paris.

This exquisite Corpse, written with six hands, undoubtedly dates with 1926. One supposes it written at the time one night sprinkled with the Coffee of Madrid with Guéthary. Dedicated to Unknown Chinese , this short text multiplies various provocations and impertinences.

Painting

What, Which, When, three tables exposed to the living room Hobby-horse of 1921.

Cinema

Emak Bakia . Film 35 mm, black and white. Duration 7 minutes. Realized by Man Ray. Interpreted by Pink Wheeler, Kiki and Jacques Rigaut. 1926.

Some Quotations of the author

The marvellous one is not rare, incredulity is stronger than the miracles. Try, if you can it, to stop a man who travels with his suicide to the buttonhole. There is only one thing with oneself, it is his desire. The loves of my friends are my loves. The life is not worth the blow which one tries hard to leave. I will be large a death.

Bonds

Jacques Rigaut in 1926 * Novel of a poor young man of Jacques Rigaut
a blog devoted to Jacques Rigaut by his biographer Jean-Luc Bitton: http://www.rigaut.blogspot.com/

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