Leon-Paul Fargue (March 4th 1876, Paris - November 24th 1947, Paris), Poet French.

Wire naturalness of a Engineer resulting from the central School and of a modest dressmaker, Fargue was recognized by his/her father only very tardily. This circumstance influenced its existence notably, and could be at the origin of its chronic melancholy and its exacerbated sensitivity.

After brilliant secondary studies, during which it had prestigious professors (Mallarmé in particular), Fargue enters in Khâgne to the Lycée Henri-Iv, at the same moment as Alfred Jarry. It disappoints waitings of its family, which wanted it normalien, to choose idleness: sensitive to the Painting or the Piano, it is impassioned by the Poésie.

It is introduced quickly into the literary living rooms, in particular at “Tuesday” of Mallarmé thanks to Régnier, where it meets the intellectual and artistic elite beginning of the century, Valéry, Schwob, Claudel but also Debussy or Gide. He was member of the Société of Apaches and bound friendship with Maurice Ravel which put later in music its poem Rêves (1929).

He founds with Larbaud and Valéry the review Commerce .

After some poems published in 1894, Fargue gives Tancrède in 1895 (incipit: It was several times an young man so beautiful that the women expressly wanted that it wrote) , then Poèmes in 1912 and For the music in 1914.

Fargue is generally expressed in verse free, even in prose, in a language full with tenderness and sadness, on simple subjects, sometimes cocasses (one sometimes compared it to the photographer Robert Doisneau), more rarely absolutely oneiric (see Vulturne in 1928 however). Parisian in love with its city ( According to Paris , 1932; the Pedestrian of Paris , 1939), it writes also oppressive and drowned loneliness Nuit and of alcohol ( High loneliness , 1941). Fargue was also a étincelant chronicler of the Parisian company ( Refuges , Déjeuners of sun , 1942, or the magic lantern 1944). It is struck of Hémiplégie in 1943 and dies in 1947 with Montparnasse, in the residence of his wife, the painter Chériane, without to have ceased writing however. He was member of the Mallarmé Academy since 1937.

A poem

Night

A quotation

You made household of the universe with the ustensils of the reasoning. Good. You arrive at a well arranged dirtiness.

Works

Poetry

• Poems (First book) . Nancy, Royer, 1907.
• Tancrède . Saint-Pourçain-on-drunk, 1911.
• Poëmes . Paris, NRF-Marcel River & Co.
• For the music . Paris, NRF, 1914.
• Poëmes , followed For the music . Paris, NRF, 1919.
• Banality . Paris, NRF, 1928.

- Banality . Paris, NRF.

• Vulturne . Paris, NRF, 1928.
• familiar Continuation . Paris, Emile-Paul, 1928.

- familiar Continuation . Paris, NRF, 1929.

• On a piano edge , NRF.
• Thicknesses . Paris, NRF, 1928.
• Under the lamp . Paris, NRF, 1929.
• Spaces . Paris, NRF, 1929.
• Ludions . Paris, OJ Fourcade, 1930.
• According to Paris . Paris, Bookstore of France, 1931.

- According to Paris . Paris, NRF, 1932.

• High loneliness . Paris, Emile-Paul.
• For the music, Tancrède , followed Ludions . Paris, Gallimard.
• Poetries . Paris, Gallimard, 1963. Preface Saint-John Perse.

Chronicles, tests

• the Pedestrian of Paris . Paris, Gallimard.

• Lunches of sun . Gallimard, 1942.
• Refuges . Paris, Emile-Paul.
• Magic lantern . Marseilles, Robert Laffont.
• Composite (with Andre Beucler). Paris, O.C.I.A., 1944.
• Meanders . Geneva, Medium of the world, 1946.
• Poisons . Paris, Daragnès, 1946.
• Portraits of family. Paris, Janin, 1947.
• Hernando de Bengoechea or the heart of a poet . Paris, Amiot-Dumont, 1948.
• etc… . Geneva, Medium of the world, 1949.
• Maurice Ravel . Paris, Domat, 1949.
• XX districts of Paris . Lausanne, Vineta, 1951.
• Dinners of the moon . Gallimard, 1952.
• For painting . Gallimard, 1955.
• great hours of Louvre . Paris, the two Sirens, 1948.

Correspondence

• Valery Larbaud and Leon-Paul Fargue, Correspondence 1910-1946 (ED. Th. Alajouanine). Gallimard, 1971.

Critical references

• Homage to Leon-Paul Fargue . free Sheets , n° 45-46, June 1927.

• Andre Beucler, Sunday with Leon-Paul Fargue . Paris, the Point of the Day, 1947.
• Andre Beucler, Twenty years with Leon-Paul Fargue . Geneva, Medium of the world, 1952.
• Jean-Claude Walter, Leon-Paul Fargue or the man in prey at the city. Paris, Gallimard, 1973.
• Henri Thomas, With the meeting of Leon-Paul Fargue . Montpellier, Fata Morgana, 1992.
• Jean-Paul Pin, Leon-Paul Fargue, poet and pedestrian of Paris . Gallimard, " Biographies" , 1997.
• Barbara Pascarel, Leon-Paul Fargue . Paris/Rome, Memini, " Bibliography of the writers français" , 2000.
• Leon-Paul Fargue poet and chronicler (to dir. Pierre Loubier and Barbara Pascarel). RITM Except series, University Paris X-Nanterre, 2001.
• Fargue… variations , texts joined together by Pierre Loubier. Re-examined Social sciences n° 274,2/2004.

External bonds

• http://perso.wanadoo.fr/leonpaulfargue/index.html

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