Jean Sénac

Jean Sénac (1926 - 1973)

Born from unknown father with Blessed-Saf in Oranie, the " poet who signed of a sun " , he was assassinated with Algiers on August 30th, 1973. Does its murder still remain, voluntarily? not elucidated (it was known tracked by the FLN and target of a close assassination). Algerian or French? Algerian undoubtedly if it is considered that this nationality by him was asserted. He sings the revolutionary fight in which he puts all his hope by its capacity to create a world of beauty and fraternity, in Algeria open to all the cultures. It associates its own combat with it: search for major, at the same time personal and cultural identity, and its fight to make accept its homosexuality: " This poor body also Wants its war of libération". Large admiror of Nerval, Rimbaud, Artaud, Broom.

Part of its files is deposited with the Files of the Town of Marseilles.

Selective bibliography

Poetry

  • Poems , foreword of Rene Tank, Paris, collection Hope directed by Albert Camus, Gallimard, 1954.
  • Morning of my people , followed fragments of the Diwan of the Staff and Spanish Diwan , foreword of Mostefa Lacheraf, drawings of Abdallah Benanteur, Rodez, Subervie, 1961.
  • the Rose and the nettle , engraved slates of Mohammed Khadda, Paris-Algiers, Books of the interior world, Rhumbs, 1964.
  • Citizens of beauty , Rodez, Subervie, 1967; Charlieu, Bartavelle editor, 1997.
  • Fore-parts , preceded by Poems iliaques and followed Diwan of Noûn , Paris, Gallimard, 1968.
  • the Disorders , written between 1953 and 1956, Paris, Bookstore Saint-Germain-of-Meadows, 1972.
  • A-Corpoème , collection of new poems, followed the Disorders , preceded by Jean Sénac, Poet to live his name , test of Jean Déjeux, Paris, Editions Saint-Germain-of-Meadows, 1981.
  • Derisions and Vertiges, trouvures , foreword of Jamel Eddine Bencheikh, cover of Abdallah Benanteur, Arles, Actes Sud, 1983.
  • the Myth of sperm - the Mediterranean , Arles, Actes Sud, 1984.
  • Works poetic , foreword of Rene de Ceccatty, postface of Hamid Nacer-Khodja, Editions Acts/Southern, 1999 the whole of the collections published, is fifteen titles.
  • For a possible ground , texts gathered, annotated, prefaced and accompanied by biographical stakes and a bibliography of Hamid Nacer-Khodja, edition established by Marie Ring, Paris, Marsa, 1999 eight new poetic collections as well as other writings, texts political, literary testimonys, criticisms and of art, correspondences, in news majority.

Account

Tests

Correspondence with Albert Camus

Jean Sénac, the poet, and Albert Camus the writer, both born in Algeria, maintained a correspondence and friendly 1947 to 1958. This correspondence remained largely been unaware of so far. The new letters, joined together here by Hamid-Nacer-Khodja and its test the rebellious Son, tell us the history of the major friendship which bound the two men. When Sénac, young a twenty year old poet, written for the first time at Albert Camus this one is already internationally known.

The Foreigner goes back to 1942 and the Plague has just appeared. The writer however answers at once Jean Sénac (June 24th, 1947). These two letters inaugurate an affectionate, demanding and trustful correspondence. It will last until 1958. The letters testify very to a time rich and bubbling: the two men speak about literature, the work of Jean Sénac is outlined and structure, Camus become Nobel Prize, several writers of the time are mentioned in these exchanges. This correspondence relates to as their personal history vis-a-vis the fight for the independence of Algeria, as Sénac supports of all its heart, with the war which follows and the tragic events which cross it. In April 1958, Jean Sénac who reproaches his silence with vehemence Camus addresses him a letter of rupture. " Camus, our Taleb brother has just been guillotine. I know with what a not I must you irritate, but what! Didn't I swear myself to be with you of an unbearable frankness? Those which would like to make you to it Nobel Prize of Pacification couldn't you require the grace of the Taleb student? " (introduction to a maintenance with Hamid Nacer-Khodja published into the Dispatch of Kabylie , cf external Bond 2)

On Jean Sénac

  • Jean Déjeux, methodical and critical Bibliography of the Algerian literature of French language 1945-1977 , SNED, Algiers, 1979.
  • Jamel-Eddine Bencheikh, the Man-poem Jean Sénac (poem), Southern Acts/.
  • Jean-Pierre Péroncel-Hugoz, Assassination of a poet , followed by a new of Jean Sénac, Hours of my adolescence , foreword of Tahar Ben Jelloun, Marseilles, Editions Jeanne Laffitte, 1983.
  • Poetry in the South, Jean Sénac and the new Algerian poetry of French expression new, Files of the Town of Marseilles, 1983.
  • Jean Déjeux, Dictionary of the Maghrebian authors of French language , Paris, Karthala Editions, 1984.
  • fraternal Sun, Jean Sénac and the new Algerian poetry of French expression (Acts of the Mediterranean Meetings of Provence, 1983), Marseilles, Editions Jeanne Lafitte, 1985.
  • Rabah Belamri, Jean Sénac, between desire and pain, Study and choice of texts , Algiers, University Publications Office, 1989.
  • Anthology of the Algerian literature (1950-1987) , introduction, choice, notes and comments of Charles Bonn, the Book of Pocket, Paris, 1990
  • Homage to Jean Sénac , Paris, Awal, n° 10, 1993.
  • Jamel-Eddine Bencheikh and Christiane Chaulet Achour, Jean Sénac: clandestine of the two banks , Paris, Séguier Editions, 1999.
  • Dominique the Butcher, both Jean; Jean Sénac, the man sun, Jean Pélégri, the man stone (correspondence 1962-1973, new poems), spangled Montpellier, Chèvre-feuille, and Algiers, Barzakh, 2002.
  • Nicole Tuccelli and Emile Temime, Jean Sénac, the Algerian , foreword of Jean Daniel, Paris, Editions Differently, 2003.
  • Hamid Nacer-Khodja, Albert Camus, Jean Sénac, or the son rebels , foreword of Guy Dugas, Paris, Editions the Paris-Mediterranean, and Algiers, EDIF 2000, 2004.
  • Bernard Mazo, Jean Sénac , Aden, 2005.

Catalog of films

  • Ali Akika, Jean Sénac, the blacksmith of the sun , 58 mn, Paris, Productions the Lantern, 2003.
  • Abdelkrim Bahloul, sun assassinated , 85 mn, Franco-Belgian coproduction, Pierre Gray Productions, 2004.

Internal bond

External bond

  • Articles on Jean Sénac in the Algerian press
  • Article on its correspondences with Albert Camus

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