Louis Émié

Born in 1900 with Bordeaux and died in 1967, Louis Émié is a French writer and poet.

Biography

Poet, novelist and essay writer, Louis Émié awaited a national recognition a long time that its condition of Of Bordeaux indéracinable prohibited to him. Folded up in its capital of province, supporting a middle-class life, simultaneously carrying out a career of journalist - it was long years sub-editor and editor association to the daily newspaper South-western , after having started by writing for the Small Gironde - and a creative company which it was anxious to insulate and preserve, it escaped, without never ceasing of the côtoyer, with the great Parisian artistic movements, engaging of the correspondences with those which he admired and of which, for much, he gained the friendship: Jean Cocteau, Jean Rostand, Joe Bousquet, Delétang-Late Yanette, Jean Paulhan, Max-pol. Fouchet, Maurice Fombeure or max Jacob, that it will meet only twice, but with which it maintained a durable correspondence (partly published in the Dialogs with max Jacob ).

Translator, it encourages the reading of Gómez of Serna, then of Alberti. Novelist, though remaining in the shade of Mauriac, it expresses a disenchantment where unavowable passions disputes it with the mediocrity of the daily newspaper; it publishes only two works: the Night of October (1929), remote echo of triumphing Radiguet and about which one will speak for Goncourt, and God without head (1944).

Essay writer, he is the author of Espagnes , “undoubtedly delivers best, most intelligent and in love that one can read on this secret country” (Henri Amouroux, coll Poètes of today, Seghers), several times republished, increased, and where spreads its passion for this second fatherland - his/her mother was Spanish - of which sensuality, the religiosity and curious loneliness are consubstantial for him.

Poet finally and especially, poet musician if it is it composes and puts his worms in music, encouraged by his friend Henri Sauguet -, it seeks a long time his way, initially sensitive to the surrealist furies, then with the oneiric realism of a Supervielle or a Fargue, rimant by play or exercise, questioning himself, letting himself go to a preciosity which max Jacob will reproach him, for, with the turning of its fortieth year, to deliver themselves finally entire, following the Spanish mystics and of Rilke, and to compose its masterpieces: Love of our love (1939), the Angel (1958), Invention of the love (1961), the Coplas (1965)… It was also close to the poets of Rochefort since 1941.

The work of Louis Émié, secret, dense, multiple, still remains to be discovered, because she affirms the revelation of a great writer and because she clarifies figures, concerns, landscapes, a whole time literary and artistic whose poet was an attentive witness.

Works

Poetry

the Abdication of the Poor and the Crowning of the Corpses (Antwerp, Editions Light, 1922)
Passage of the Madness (Books of the South, 1931)
the Human relations (Wisdom, 1936)
Four poems (the Top, 1939)
Amour of our love (Algiers, Fountain, 1941)
Délice of alive the (Books of the School of Rochefort, 1941)
I live here (editions of the Islands of Lérins, 1942)
the Winter and the Summer (except trade, 1944)
the Name of fire (Gallimard, 1944)
the State of grace (editions of the Roundabout, 1946)
Perséphone (Plon, 1946)
Dance of dead the (Plon, 1947)
This Desert (E.I.L., 1947)
Dormeuses (With the sign of the meditating man, 1948)
Invention of dead the (Rougerie, 1950)
the Flash and Time , with Yanette Delétang-Tardiff and Roger Belluc (Rougerie, 1951)
Romancero of the profile lost (Seghers, 1951)

Ways of the sea (Algiers, ED. Sun, 1952)

You (Bookstore Letters, 1953)

High Desires without absence (Seghers, 1953)

the Human form (Oran, ED. Simoun, 1953)

Alphabet to learn how to read on vacation (Marginal, 1954)

the Figure (Las Palmas of Gran Canaria, 1954)

Felt sorry for (Rodez, ED. Subervie, 1956)

the Rose of the seas (Perpignan, ED. Andre Vinas, 1957)

the Nightingale , poem-object of Flora Klee-Palyi (Wuppertal, 1957)

the Angel (Seghers, 1958)

the Lady with the cats (Malignant, ED. C.E.L.F., 1959)

Volubilis (Yves Filhol, 1960)

Invention of the love (Filhol, 1961)

the Night (Malignant, ED. C.E.L.F., 1962)

Works in prose

Language and humor at Marcel Proust (1928)

the Night of October, novel (Gallimard, 1929)

Espagnes , test (Books of the South, 1935; rééd. with photographs of the author, Algiers, Edmond Charlot, 1945; rééd. Brussels, Editions of the Artists, 1955; rééd. Climates, 1998)

true History , of Montesquieu, prefaces and notes (Gallimard, 1942)

André Gaillard , test (Rodez, ED. Subervie, 1954)

God without head , novel (Robert Laffont, 1944)

Dialogs with max Jacob , test (Corrêa/Buchet-Chastel, 1954; rééd. the Feast, 1994)

Guyenne and Gascogne , test (Bookstore Hatchet, 1960)

Memorial , newspaper (Opals, 2001)