Joe Bousquet

See also: Bousquet

Joe Bousquet (Narbonne, 1897 - Carcassonne, 1950) is a Poète French.

Wounded in spring 1918, at 21 years, reached with the spinal column by a German ball, it remains paralyzed with height of the pectoral ones, loses the use of its lower extremities and remains confined to bed all his life in Carcassonne, with 53 rue de Verdun, in a room whose shutters are closed permanently.

With his friends François-Paul Alibert, Ferdinand Alquié, Claude-Louis Estève and Rene Nelli, it founds in 1928 the review Chantiers .

In the Forties, the Books of the South charges it with a " Cabinet of lectures" it is occupied with Francine Bloch, first principal chronicler of the review.

He is in correspondence with many writers and artists of which Paul Eluard and max Ernst. He leaves a considerable poetic work.

Quotations

  • “It is necessary to live, live, only live”
  • In connection with a woman: “It seemed to me that separate life of the body by my wound and tiny room to think what I could not approach any more, I was going to discover in his indecency a kind of spiritual transparency, where the function of my body would be returned to me.”

Poetries

  • the Evil of childhood , (Denoël, 1939), illustrated by Rene Iché
  • Translates silence , (Gallimard, 1941)
  • the Leader of the moon , (1946
  • the Knowledge of the evening , (Editions of the Grape, 1946)

Tests critical

  • Light, insuperable rot and other tests on Jouve , Fata Morgana, 1987.

External bonds

  • Joe Bousquet or made Poetry body
  • http://www.chantiers.org/bousquet1.htm
  • http://ecrits-vains.com/points_de_vue/ferami.htm
  • Famous http://www.espritsnomades.com/sitelitterature/bousquet/bousquetjoe.html
  • Men in Carcassonne

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