Paul-Jean Toulet

Paul-Jean Toulet (Pau, June 5th 1867 - Guéthary, September 6th 1920) is a writer and poet French, famous for its Contrerime S , a poetic form which it had created.

Biography

Paul-Jean Toulet loses his mother with his birth. While his/her father regains the Mauritius, he is entrusted to an uncle of Bilhères, in the Vallée of Ossau. He remains three years in Mauritius (1885 - 1888) then one year with Algiers (1888 - 1889), where he publishes his first articles. It arrives at Paris in 1898.

They is there that it is formed truly, under the supervision of Willy, of which it is one of the many negros, in particular for Maugis in household . Joint tenant of the future Prince of the Gastronomes Curnonsky, it attends the living rooms society men and the boudoirs half-society men which it evokes in My Friend Nane . He works much and devotes himself to various excesses, of which alcohol and opium. From November 1902 at May 1903, it accomplishes a voyage which carries out it as far as Indo-China.

It leaves Paris in 1912 definitively to settle in his sister, with Saint-Loubès, close to Libourne, then with Guéthary, where it Marie. Its last years are obscured by the disease. During this time, a group of young poets, whose Francis Carco and Tristan Derème, taking its work in model, is entitled “whimsical poets”.

Famous the Contrerime S , that the author had dispersed in reviews and the body of his novels, is joined together in 1916, but are published only a few months after its death.

Its only dramatic test, the Supper stopped , is played for the first time on May 27th 1944 with the Théâtre of the Old man-Dovecote, with the same program as another creation, Door - closed of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Paul-Jean Toulet had had a project with Claude Debussy around As it you will like ( As you like it ) of William Shakespeare. The disease of the type-setter did not allow the realization of it.

Works

; Posthumous publications
  • Tales of Béhanzigue (1920)
  • Contrerimes (1921)
  • the Supper stopped (theater, 1922)
  • Three Impostures (1922)
  • Young ladies Mortagne (1923)
  • Letters with oneself (1927)
  • Towards news (1936)
; Translation ; Correspondence
  • Paul-Jean Toulet and Claude Debussy, Correspondence , Paris, Editions of the Pike perch, 2005,132 p.

Bibliography succinte

  • Daniel Aranjo, Paul-Jean Toulet (1867-1920) . Vol. 1. life, work . Vol. 2. Esthetics , Pau, Marrimpouey, 1980,600 p.
  • Henri Martineau, Life of Paul-Jean Toulet , Paris, the Couch, 1921.
  • Pierre-Olivier Walzer, Paul-Jean Toulet, Work, the Writer , Paris, With the Doors of France, 1949,394 p.
  • Catalog of the exposure Paul-Jean Toulet to the National library of France, May-June 1968.

External bonds

  • Contrerimes
  • the Notebook of Mr. of Paur
  • Texts in line (Gutenberg project)

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