Louis-Rene of the Forests

Louis-Rene of the Forests is a French writer born in Paris in 1918 and died the December 30th 2000. Discrete author of a work not very abundant but largely with accompanying notes by the critic.

Biography

After a secondary schooling with Bourges, it follows studies of right and political sciences and starts to make appear musical and literary chronicles. It is at the end of the Thirties that it becomes acquainted with Jean de Frotté, who puts it in relation to Patrice of the Tower of the Pine, Michel of Boisberranger and Jean Chauvel. Mobilized in 1939, of return to him (in Berry) in 1940, it will engage in Resistance. Its literary beginnings date from the Occupation: between 1941 and 1943, he writes to the Beggars , published by Gallimard, which will be followed in 1946 of the Bavard , almost ignored of the public.

He binds friendship with Raymond Queneau and André Frénaud. After one year of work with the young editor Robert Laffont, it is withdrawn in province. It publishes in some reviews: the Crossbow , new Letters , the New French Review . In 1953, it returns to Paris and takes part at Gallimard (of which he will be member of the reading panel of 1966 to 1983) in the design of “the Encyclopedia of the Pleiad”, with R. Queneau. It binds then friendship with Michel Gallimard, Robert Antelme, Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot.

It founds in 1954 the Committee against the war of Algeria, with Dionys Mascolo, Edgar Morin and Robert Antelme.

In 1960, it publishes the room of the children , price of Criticisms.

In 1967, it founds the review Transitory the , with Yves Bonnefoy, André of Bouchet, Paul Celan, Jacques Dupin, Michel Leiris and Gaetan Picon; it also makes appear in Mercure de France the Shrews of the sea . In the same editor will appear in 1997 his last work, Ostinato , fragmented autobiography whose drafting had been undertaken since 1975 and whose NRF , the Anger of the winds , Art Close , literary About fifteen and the Book the refuge had given successively, between 1984 and 1994, of the extracts and outlines. Several prices will be given to him in the years 1980: Maeterlinck price in Brussels (1988), national Grand Prix of the letters for the whole of its work (1991).

List works

  • the Beggars (Romance), Gallimard, 1943, “final edition”, 1986.
  • the Chatterer (account), Gallimard, 1946, the Imaginary 1979.
  • the Room of the children (accounts), Gallimard, 1960; The Imaginary one (without “a patient in forest”), 1983; A patient in forest, Fata Morgana, 1985.
  • Shrews of the sea (poem), Mercure de France, 1967.
  • Ways and turnings of the fiction (test), Fata Morgana, 1985.
  • Misfortune in the Lido (account), Fata Morgana, 1987.
  • Poems of Samuel Wood (poem), Fata Morgana, 1988.
  • Vis-a-vis the immémorable (fragments), Fata Morgana, 1993.
  • Ostinato (autobiographical fragments), Mercure de France, 1997.
  • Step by step until the last , Mercure de France, 2001.

Critical studies

  • Maurice Blanchot
    • “vain word”, postface with the Chatterer in edition UGE “10-18” of 1963, taken again in the Friendship, Gallimard, 1971
    • a voice come besides, fine Ulysses of century, 1992.
  • Yves Bonnefoy
    • “a writing of our time”, in the Truth of word, Mercure de France, 1988.
  • Serge Canadas
    • “L. - R. Forests: the inaccessible question”, Criticizes, n°442, Minuit, March 1984.
    • Marc Comina
    • Louis-Rene of the Forests, impossible silence , Field small valley, 1998.
  • Paul Garapon
    • “Ostinato, of L. - R. Forests: a version of the inachevable”, Spirit, November 1997.
  • Yannick Haenel :
    • “the Molieri mystery”, Collection n°26, Field small valley, 1993.
  • Edmond Jabès:
    • “L. - R. Forests or it Malayan of the question”, in the Book of the margins, Delivers pocket, 1987.
  • max Loreau:
    • “L. - R. Forests and the torment of the sovereign word”, Po&sie, n°29, Belin, 1984.
  • Richard Millet
    • “On L. - R. Forests”, in Accompaniments, P.O.L., 1991.
  • John Naughton:
    • Louis-Rene of the Forests, Rodopi, 1993.
  • Bernard Pingaud:
    • “capacities of the voice”, in the romantic Experiment, Gallimard, Ideas, 1983.
  • Pascal Quignard:
    • the Wish of silence, Fata Morgana, 1985.
  • Dominique Rabaté:
    • Louis-Rene of the Forests, the voice and volume, Corti, 1991.
  • Jean Roudaut:
    • Louis-Rene of the Forests , Threshold, Contemporaries, 1995.
    • Still a little snow , Mercure de France, 1996.
  • Vincent Védrenne:
    • “Description of a combat”, New Collection n°43, Field small valley, 1997.
  • Antony Wall
    • “the mystical word is a pretext”, Poétique, n°88, Seuil, November 1991

Source

  • an article on Louis-Rene of the Forests, centered on proclamation of the 121

External bond

  • of the studies on ''' Louis-Rene of the Forests ''' on the site of adpf

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