Rene Crevel

Rene Crevel (born the August 10th 1900 and dead the June 18th 1935) is a writer and surrealist Poète French.

Biography

Born in a family from the Parisian middle-class, Rene Crevel follows his schooling to the Lycée Janson-with-Sailly then made studies of letters and right to the Sorbonne. He there does not follow the courses and prefers lira and to discuss with the artists. His/her father commits suicide whereas it is 14 years old: this event will mark its life deeply.

During its military service, it meets and is integrated into the literary circle of the moment. It meets there for example Roger Vitrac or max Morise. It becomes acquainted with André Breton in 1921 and joined the surrealist . At the end of 1922, it involves the group in experiments of hypnotic sleep, in practices inspired of the Spiritisme: ring around a table, hands posed without stiffness on the edge, drawn aside fingers, etc, ceremonial that André Breton accepts with good will. Crevel impresses really Breton by the quality of its eloquence so much so that this one will consider it regrettable that the meetings could not be recorded: “We would have had an inappreciable document, something like the " spectrum sensible" of Crevel. ” Excluded from the movement in October 1925, Rene Crevel prefers to follow Tristan Tzara and thus to join the movement dadaïste.
In 1926 it is reached of Tuberculose. In 1929, the exile of Leon Trotski will lead it to join again with the surrealist ones. Faithful of André Breton, it becomes exhausted to try to bring closer surrealist and communist. Member of the French Communist party since 1927, it is excluded from it in 1933.

He invests himself much in the organization of the international Congrès of the writers for the defense of the culture of 1935, in which fits the surrealist group, with Breton designated as spokesperson. However, following a dispute between Breton and Ilya Ehrenbourg, the Soviet delegation obtains that the French writer is excluded from the Congress. Rene Crevel, who cannot imagine the absence of surrealist with this Congress, in disillusioned and nauseated fate. Moreover, it comes to learn that it suffered from a renal tuberculosis, as Louis Aragon will tell it well later. The following night, it commits suicide with gas.

“Crevel, with this beautiful glance of teenager that some photographs keep us, the seductions which he exerts, fears and the bravados so prompt to wake up in him… through all that it is the anguish which dominates. It very complex, is psychologically thwarted besides in a kind of frenzy which has it by its love of XVIIIe and particularly of Diderot. ” André Breton, Talks , 1952.

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