See also: Tardieu

Jean Tardieu (1903 - 1995) is a writer French.

He worked with the National museums then at Hachette and after the war, with the French Radiodiffusion. Translator of Goethe and Hölderlin, it receives the Grand Prix of the Company of the Men of letters in 1986.

Carefree and happy child, it lost this beautiful balance at 17 years, at the time of a crisis which it described as " névrotique" , testing starting from there an unexplainable Metaphysical anguish . Consequently, it will not cease questioning this share of shade, at the same time worrying and fertile. " This so terrible night appears beneficial if we embrace it, the opened eyes, in the truth of the regard." in Darkness of the Day, 1974.

Not easily classable, Poet above all and especially, it also writes for the Théâtre (Théâtre of room) and works with the radio during a score of years (Club of test).

It gives concerned conventions of the kinds and tries experiments in connection with the poetic language and of its relationship to the language of the every day.

Its book One comes to seek Mr Jean (Gallimard, NRF), recalls in a wandering way of the memories in relation to its vocation of writer, whose harbingers are perceived as of childhood. It is a good introduction to the universe of the author, at the same time by the evocation of its space environment (Paris, primarily) and temporal, by that of its significant meetings, and by its very fine reflections on its personal step of creation.

It is with Gerberoy that one could cross it in the current of the years 1980 to 1995.

" Oeuvres" published at Gallimard in the collection Quarto recalls the literary, biographical and bibliographical course of Jean Tardieu.