Jean Amrouche

Jean Amrouche , from his name Jean El-Mouhoub Amrouche , is born the February 6th 1906 in Kabylie (Algérie) - and was not declared with the civil statue that 7 days after is on February 13rd, 1906 because of the snowy weather in the Northern slope of the valley of Soummam, in one of the villages Kabyles of the commune of Ighil Ali, and dies the April 16th 1962 with Paris.

Kabyle of origin and Culture, the Colonisation made of him a Christian with the French like language, which gives him the feeling to be Exil E in its own country. The image of lost innocence and childhood haunts its poetry, all in the search of light. A share of its work still not published is discovered gradually, revealing an important, universal poet. By expressing in French the Berber Songs of Kabylie , it makes a treasure of universal poetry of it.

Biography

Converted with the Christianity, the family of Jean Amrouche settles with Tunis. After brilliant secondary studies, Jean Amrouche between at the Teacher training school of Saint-Cloud. He is then professor de Lettres in the colleges of Sousse, Bône and Tunis, where he binds with the poet Armand Guibert, and publishes his first poems in 1934 and 1937. During the Second War, it meets André Gide in Tunis, and joined the gaullists mediums in Algiers.

Jean Amrouche is, of February 1944 in February 1945, in Algiers, then of 1945 in June 1947 with Paris, the director of the review the Arch , published by Edmond Charlot, which publishes the great names of the French literature (Antonin Artaud, Maurice Blanchot, Henri Bosco, Joe Bousquet, Roger Caillois, Albert Camus, Rene Char, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, Julien Green, Pierre-Jean Jouve, Jean Lescure, Henri Michaux, Jean Paulhan, Francis Ponge…). Jean Amrouche carries out simultaneously very many literary emissions, on Tunis-R.T.T. (1938-1939), Radio France Algiers (1943-1944), and especially Radio France Paris (1944-1958), in which it invites philosophical (Gaston Bachelard, Roland Barthes, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edgar Morin, Jean Starobinski, Jean Wahl), poets or novelists (Claude Aveline, Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, Pierre Emmanuel, Max-pol. Fouchet, Jean Lescure, Kateb Yacine) and painters (Charles Lapicque).

He is the inventor of a new radiophonic kind in the series of his talks , in particular his 34 Entretiens with André Gide (1949), 42 Entretiens with Paul Claudel (1951) , 40 Entretiens with François Mauriac (1952-1953) , 12 Entretiens with Giuseppe Ungaretti (1955-1956).

After putbeing put at the door of Radio France by the Prime Minister for the time, whereas it is used as intermediary between the authorities of the Front of National Release Algerian and the Général de Gaulle of which he is a privileged interlocutor, Jean Amrouche does not cease in radio Switzerland, Lausanne and Geneva, to plead of 1958 to 1961 the Algerian cause. He dies of a cancer a few weeks after the agreement of the cease-fire.

Jean Amrouche held of 1928 to 1961 a newspaper which remains new.

Selective bibliography

Poetry

Ashes , poems (1928-1934). 1st edition, Tunis, Mirages, 1934. 2nd edition, Paris, Harmattan, presentation of Am Hamdani, 1983
secret Star . 1st edition, Tunis, " Books of barbarie" , 1937. 2nd edition, Paris, Harmatan, presentation of Am Hamdani, 1983
Berber Songs of Kabylie . 1st edition, Tunis, Monomotapa, 1939. 2nd edition, Paris, collection " Poetry and théâtre" , directed by Albert Camus, Editions Edmond Charlot, 1947. 3rd edition, Paris, Harmattan, preface of Henry Bauchau, 1986. 4th edition (bilingual edition), Paris, Harmattan, prefaces Mouloud Mammeri, texts joined together, transcribed and annotated by Tassadit Yacine, 1989
Tunisia of the grace , engravings of Charles Meystre, impression and typography of Henri Chabloz in Rénens (Swiss), limited pulling, 1960. Republished in the review " Studies méditerranéennes" , n° 9, Paris, May 1961
the poems Outline of a battle song (with the memory of Larbi Ben Me hidi, death in prison on March 4th, 1957) and the Algerian combat (written in June 1958), published in reviews, were included in Espoir and Parole , Algerian poems collected by Denise Barrat, Paris, Pierre Seghers editor, 1963

Test

the eternal Jugurtha , in the Arch , n°13, Paris, 1946

Talks

Giuseppe Ungaretti/Jean Amrouche, impromptu Remarks (text developped at the point by Philippe Jaccottet, Paris, Gallimard, 1972
Discussions with Paul Claudel , 10 cassettes, Editions of the Rock, 1986
Extracted the Entretiens Gide/Amrouche in Eric Marty, André Gide, which are you? , Lyon, Manufacture, 1987
Jean Giono, Discussions with Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche , Paris, Gallimard, 1990
Pierre-Marie Héron, writers with the radio: talks with Jean Amrouche , Montpellier, University Paul Valéry, 2000

On Jean Amrouche

Jean Déjeux, methodical and critical Bibliography of the Algerian literature of French language 1945-1977 , SNED, Algiers, 1979.
Jean Déjeux, Dictionary of the Maghrebian authors of French language , Paris, Karthala Editions, 1984.
Jean Amrouche, the eternal Jugurtha , Mediterranean Meetings of Provence, 1985, Marseilles, Jeanne Lafitte, 1987
Jean-Louis Joubert, Jean Amrouche , in Dictionary of Poetry of Baudelaire at our days, under the direction of Michel Jarrety, Paris, University Presses of France, 2001
Réjane Baut, Jean El-Mouhoub Amrouche, universal Algerian , biography, a bibliography of '' written work published '', of '' published work spoken '' and the '' Analyze and inventory about the news '', Alteredit, 2003
Conference " Jean Amrouche and pluralism culturel" January 31st - February 1st, 2003, Paris - IHESS - Review AWAL n° December 30th, th and th 2004.
Réjane Baut, " Jean El-Mouhoub Amrouche, Algerian universel" 2nd Alteredit edition, March 2006 2-84533-095-6
Réjane Baut, " Jean El-Mouhoub Amrouche, Muthe and réalité" ; editions of Such, 3 rue des Frères Torki - 09000 Blida - Algeria - August 2005 - 400 DA.

Around Jean Amrouche

Fadhma Has Mansour Amrouche mother, Histoire of my life , 1968; Paris, François Maspero, 1972
Taos Amrouche sister, Harvest of the exile, I, black Hyacinth . 1st edition, Paris, Edmond Charlot, 1947; republication, Paris, Maspero. Harvest of the exile, II, Street of the Tambourines , Paris, the Roundtable, 1960. the imaginary lover , Morel New business, 1975

Judgments

" The poetic work of Jean Amrouche is not worth by its abundance: it practically stops in 1937 whereas the poet lives until 1962. The major part of its life is devoted to the deciphering of the world and research of the native territory ( Berber Chants of Kabylie , 1939), to the questioning of the professional work (its discussions with J. Giono, F. Mauriac, P. Claudel, A. Gide, G. Ungaretti) and to the political combat (its interventions in the written press and with the radio). (…) The figure of Absent, at the beginning vague and mysterious, is essential little by little and resplendit in its purity and its size. It becomes obsessional presence. But it is not the single one. (…) Painful presence of childhood and native space lost doubling (by the distance and the faith) - that one remembers in Cendres this poem on death dedicated to the ancestral tombs which will not shelter me , presence of the jubilant body and the alleviating terrestrial fruits. (…) The inspiration of Jean Amrouche is before any mystic, of a mysticism which transcends the religion to create its own religions: that of the love éperdu, that of cosmic contemplation, that of the harmony of the elements. Moving away from religious asceticism, the verb of Jean Amrouche bursts in opulent poems, gorged with ciels, saps, storms, fruits and of femmes."

Tahar Djaout, Amrouche, secret Star , childhood of the man and the world , in Algeria Topicality n° 921, Algiers, 9 June 15th, 1983, p. 21

" The recordings of the talks with this true creator of the kind which is Amrouche with Gide, then with Claudel, Mauriac, Ungaretti are works from which the history of the literature will occur only with damage, and whose loss would be as serious as that of the manuscript of the Caves of the Vatican , of Protée , Génitrix , or Allegria . (…) What is upsetting here and forever worthy of the attention of the men, they are precisely the human voices , in their origin even, at this point where they are not yet distinct from the words which they pronounce. They are the sighs tracked of Gide in front of the pitiless question that Amrouche inflicts to him, they are the massive bearings of Claudel, the tortured breathlessness of Ungaretti, the difficult murmurs of Mauriac. Etneuf time on ten Amrouche finds the question which constrained its interlocutor to make consent of itself, and to give up protecting itself from the mask that the fashionable existence authorized its voice with former."

Jean Lescure, Radio and Literature , in History of the literatures, volume 3 , under the direction of Raymond Queneau, Encyclopédie of the Pleiad, Paris, Gallimard, 1963, p. 1711

Internal bond

Algerian Literature

External bond

Site dedicated to Jean El Mouhouv Amrouche.
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