Jean Follain , born the August 29th 1903 with Canisy in the English Channel, deceased the March 10th 1971 in Paris, was a French writer and poet. Its work is one of those which contributed the most to the advent of a new poetry, released of the print of the Surréalisme.

Biography

Jean Follain is born on August 29th 1903 in the small borough from Canisy, in the south of Saint-Lo where it passes his childhood. He attends the college of it, where his/her father is Professor of natural science. In 1919 it remains with Leeds to improve, in vain, its English, and in 1921 undertakes studies of right to Faculty of Caen, accomplishing in 1923 a first voyage to Paris. It for health reasons is exempted of military service.

Jean Follain fixes himself the following year at Paris, carries out a training course at a Avoué, discovers the literary circles. In 1927 it is registered with the Barreau of Paris, takes part in the meetings of the group “Wisdom”, becomes acquainted with André Salmon, Pierre Reverdy, Pierre Mac Orlan, max Jacob. It publishes in 1933 its first collection, binds with Eugene Guillevic and Pierre Albert-Birot, Marie in 1934 with the girl of the painter Maurice Denis, and the same year meets Edmond-Marie Poullain. It receives in 1939 the Mallarmé Price. In spite of its very bad sight, it is mobilized in 1940 like gun to deny in DCA of Châteaudun. Jean Follain, who receives in 1941 the Blumenthal Price, supports then the poetic movements which refuse the order of Vichy.

In 1951 it gives up its career of lawyer, continuing to reside at Paris, for a post of magistrate to the Court of Bankruptcy to Charleville. Member of the Committee of the PEN-Club since 1949 it travels for this reason, in 1957, Thailand and with the Japan, and receives in 1958 the International prize of Capri. Multiplying the voyages, with the Brazil, the Peru and in Bolivia (1960), later with the the United States (1966), in Ivory Coast and with the Senegal (1967), it gives up in 1961 the magistrature, taking part assiduously in the cultural Decades of Cerisy-the-Room, near to Canisy. It receives in 1970 the Grand Prix of poetry of the French Academy. He dies in Paris on March 10th, 1971, whereas he returns of a banquet given on the boat of Touring Club, reversed by a car shortly after midnight with the outlet of the tunnel on the quay of Tileries. He is buried on March 16th with Canisy.

Association “Lira in Saint-Lo” and the Town of Saint-Lo with the assistance of the Regional management of the cultural Affairs of Basse-Normandie, of the Regional center of the Letters of Basse-Normandie, the General advice of the English Channel, organize a bi-annual literary contest “Price Jean Follain of the town of Saint-Lo”.

Selective bibliography

  • Five poems , the Compass card, 1933
  • the hot Hand , Corréa, 1933
  • the poetic Year n°1 , Editions of the Three Nest eggs, 1934
  • Eight poems , Debresse, 1935
  • Paris , Corréa, 1935; Phébus, 1978 (presented by Gil Jouanard)
  • the red Glove , Wisdom, 1936
  • the Visit of the field, G.L. Mr., 1936
  • terrestrial Songs , Denoël, 1937
  • the Grocer of Childhood , Corréa, 1938
  • Poets , Beresniack Editions, 1941
  • Ici-bas , ED. Newspaper of the Poets, 1941
  • Canisy , Gallimard, 1942. New edition, 1986
  • Inventory , Books of Rochefort, 1942
  • Use of time followed Transparency of the world , Gallimard, 1943
  • To exist , Gallimard, 1943
  • Chief town , Gallimard, 1950. New edition, 1986
  • Things given , Seghers, 1952
  • Territories , Gallimard, 1953
  • underground Palate , PAB, 1953
  • Objects, Rougerie, 1955
  • Any moment , Gallimard, 1957
  • Jean-Marie Vianney, Priest of Ars , Plon, 1959
  • Of the hours , Gallimard, 1960
  • Our world , Editions R. Atteln, Wulfrath, 1960
  • selected Poems and prose , Gallimard, 1961
  • Apparatus of the ground , with Lithography S of Lapicque, Galanis, 1962 and Gallimard, 1964
  • Peru , Meets, 1964
  • Cheminements , Club of the Poem (Geneva), 1964
  • Célébration of the potato , Robert Morel, 1966; Deyrolle Editor, 1997
  • Small glossary of the ecclesiastical slang , Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1966
  • According to all , Gallimard, 1967
  • Pierre Albert-Birot , Poets of today, Pierre Seghers, 1967
  • Approaches , Vodaine, 1969
  • Glares of time , Duchêne, 1971
  • Spaces of moments , Gallimard, 1971
  • to exist still , Silium Company, 1972
  • College , foreword of Marcel Arland, Gallimard, 1973
    • Brought together
  • Like never , French Editors, 1976
  • To put forward , Common measurement, 1976 Black
  • of the Carmelite friars , Common measurement, 1976
  • bread and the boulange , Feugraie, 1977
  • Present day, Galanis/Fata Morgana, 1978
  • All and sundry , Rougerie, 1981
  • Ceremonial Low Norman , Fata Morgana, 1982
  • the Table , Fata Morgana, 1984
  • Canisy followed Chief town , Gallimard, 1986
  • terrestrial Order , foreword of Andre Frénaud, Fata Morgana, 1986
  • Diaries 1926-1971 , Edition established and annotated by Claire Paulhan, Seghers, 1993

Many plates of Jean Follain were illustrated drawings, engravings and lithographies.

Several collections of Jean Follain were republished in the collection of pocket Poésie/Gallimard:

  • To exist followed by Territories (foreword of Henri Thomas), 1969
  • Use of time , 1983

On Jean Follain

  • Andre Dhotel, Jean Follain , Poets of today, Pierre Seghers, 1956
  • Jean Follain , (texts in particular of Raymond Queneau, Jean Tardieu, Eugene Guillevic, Andre Frénaud…), the New French Review , 222, Paris, June 1971
  • “Homage to Jean Follain”, Blue Books , 4, spring 1976
  • Jean Follain , South, spring 1979
  • To read Follain , under the direction of Serge Gaubert, texts of Lucette Czyba, Jean-Yves Debreuille, Robert Fabre, Serge Gaubert, Guillevic, Pierre Michel, Rene Plantier and Jean Rousselot, University Presses of Lyon, 1981
  • Jean-Yves Debreuille, Jean Follain, a populated world of waiting , Different Editions Time, 1995 *Yves Dodeman, “the poet Jean Follain would be 100 years old”, in Revue genealogical Norman , 92,2004

Judgments

“Described, seized in its poems, a scene, an event of the present are as if they had us already escaped; time overflows them of all shares; their discrete radiation, but single, reaches us through an insuperable ice, and let us see we them with the eyes of those which will come after us; they are upright remained sides of an already destroyed reality. For Jean Follain, any event, any vision belongs to a virtual past , as if it could not live and see that with move back. ”
Luc Decaunes

“It is during the Second world war, and more particularly in 1942 and 1943, that the three principal poets of the object appeared: Francis Ponge, Eugene Guillevic and Jean Follain. (…) Jean Follain - as Guillevic - called into question the relationships of the man with his ambient universe. This interiorization made of him a philosopher of imaginary and an enemy poet of the great romantic demonstrations. ”

Alain Bosquet, in Le Monde , Paris, March 11th, 1971

“Of its generation, Follain was the first to be written apart from surrealism, if not against him. Perhaps because, like me, he had lived a long time in the countryside. And the countryside initially, it is silence. Surrealism produced much noise. Silence gave us an approach of the words. For us, the word is detached from silence. ”

Eugene Guillevic, in To read Follain , 1981

“It is at the same time the Jean-Henri Fabre memory meticulous person and the Wang Wei of the contemplative immobility, that which delivers the things without commenting on them nor the enjoliver (…) He, large consignor, does not interpret: it delivers. ”

Gil Jouanard

External bonds

  • Poems of Jean Follain
  • Presentation '' Exister ''

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