Joseph Delteil

Joseph Delteil (1894 - 1978) is a writer audois originating in Pieusse.

Its life

It is born on April 20th, 1894 in the farm of Pradeille with Villar-in-Valley, a father logger-coalman and an illiterate mother. He saw the first four years of his childhood in Borie (dry stone construction) of Guillaman, with 30 kilometers in the south of Carcassonne, in the Valley of Dagne. Of this hovel, there remain only " today; moignons" walls, which one can always see while randonnant on the " path in poésie" created by Magalie Arnaud and his friends, mayor of Villar-in-Valley to honor the memory with the poet.

In 1898, the father of Joseph buys a little vine with Pieusse, 30 kilometers further. It is there, says it, its " village natal" , in the middle of the Corbières, where the landscape widens, where one passes from the forest to the sun, of the occitan to French. Joseph remains there to his certificate of study in 1907, to go then very close, to Limoux, to integrate the Saint-Louis school. He is then raises with the college Saint-Stanislas (small seminar) of Carcassonne.

This writer entered in literature with two poetic collections, the Greek Heart (1919) and the Swan androgyne (1921). Its country roots and occitanes make of it a character with share with Paris where it settles in 1920. Parallel to its work of civil servant, it reads, writes much and very quickly binds friendship with poets such max Jacob and the surrealist ones.

It is necessary publication of its Jeanne of Arc (1925, Price Femina) so that sounds the knell of its participation in the movement of André Breton and Louis Aragon which had however encensé its first narrative texts, On the River Love and Choléra .

It publishes many 1926 then with 1930. But the year 1931 is that during which the writer falls seriously sick; it is a rupture with Parisian life. Thereafter, Delteil decides to settle in the South and as from 1937, with the Tuilerie of Massane (with Grabels close to Montpellier), where it carries out until its death a life of peasant-writer, in company of his wife, Caroline Dudley, which was creative Negro Revue.

In its retirement occitane, it maintains solids friendships with the writers (Henry Miller), the poets (Frederic Jacques Temple), the singers (Trenet, Brassens), the painters (Soulages), the actors (Jean-Claude Drouot). By publishing in 1968 Deltheillerie , it finds a little the notoriety of the years 1920, supported by personalities like Jacques Chancel, Jean-Louis Bory, Michel Polac, Jean-Marie Drot. It dies out in 1978, four days before its 80ème birthday.

Its work

Its work does not limit to the complete Œuvres published in only one collection in 1961 but it counts forty books, whose majority were republished. It grants to him an original and anticonformist place in the contemporary French literature, as well by its way of reviving great historical figures as by its writing which mixes Lyrisme epic, realism and Fantaisie. It is time of (Re) discovering a major writer of the 20th century.

the Greek Heart (1919)
the Swan androgyne (1921)
On the River Love (1922)
Cholera (1923)
the Five directions (1924)
Jeanne d' Arc (1925, Femina Price)
the Speech with the birds by Saint François d' Assise (1925)
Hairy the (1925)
My loves… (… spiritual) (1926)
Hello! Paris (1926)
Ode in Limoux (1926)
Perpignan (1927)
porcelain Jonque (1927)
Fayette (1928)
Evil of heart (1928)
Of J. - J. Rousseau with Mistral (1928)
He was once Napoleon (1929)
the Cats of Paris (1929)
Beautiful Corisande (1930)
the Beautiful Aude (1930)
Don Juan (1930)
Gallant Green (1931)
With the Open air (1944)
Jesus II (1947)
François d' Assise (1960)
Complete Works (1961)
paleolithic Kitchen (1964)
Deltheillerie (1968)
private Correspondence Henry Miller-Joseph Delteil . Preface, translations and notes of Frederic Jacques Temple. Paris, Pierre Belfond, 1980.
Museum of navy (1990)
Prisoners of infinite the (1994)
the ironic Master (1995)
the Man cut of pieces (2005)

Dedicated works with Joseph Delteil

Andre de Richaud, Life of saint Delteil . Paris, the New business of Edition, 1928.
Maryse Choisy, very naked Delteil . Paris, Montaigne, 1930.
Robert Briatte, Joseph Delteil . Lyon, Manufacture, coll " Who are you? " , 1988.
Jean-Louis Malves, Delteil out of bullfighter's costume . Editions Loubatières, 1992.
Collective: Adventures of the account at Joseph Delteil (to dir. Robert Briatte). Montpellier, ED. the jonque one/Presses of Languedoc, 1995.
Collective: Joseph Delteil (to dir. Denitza Bantcheva). The Age of man, " The H" Files; , 1998.
Denis Wetterwald, Joseph Delteil, stopovers of an Etruscan sailor . Christian Pirot editor, 1999.
Jean-Marie Drot, " Dictionary vagabond". Plon editions, 2003.
Guy Darol, Joseph Delteil shines for everyone . IS - Samuel Tastet editor, 2006.
Marie-Francoise Lemonnier-Delpy, Joseph Delteil, a epic work at the 20th century, destinies of the hero and revolution of the account . Editions IDECO, 2006.

External bonds

There exists an Internet site entirely devoted to Joseph Delteil: http://josephdelteil.net

Here a bond devoted to an exposure on Joseph DELTEIL, carried out by the company of the great weeding: http://www.bibliexpo.com/exposition-joseph-delteil.html

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