Yvan Goll

Yvan Goll is the pseudonym of Isaac Lang , born with the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges the March 29th 1891 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine the February 27th 1950, which was a poet and bilingual writer German and French. One meets sometimes the orthography Ivan Goll or the pseudonym Yvan Lazang .

Wire of a fabric representative deceased when it was six years old, Yvan Goll leaves the the Vosges for Metz, city German at the time, and his/her mother makes it naturalize to support her school course. It continues studies of right to the universities of Strasbourg, Freiburg-in-Brisgau and Munich. In 1913, in Berlin, it takes part in the movement expressionnist. In a lyric leaflet, Panama Canal , the poet describes the fight of the elements against the man and the heroic boring of the channel.

Of 1914 with 1919, it lives in Switzerland and militates in its writings within the pacifist group gathered around Romain Roland and Henri Guilbeaux. It meets there Claire Aischmann, journalist and German woman of letters, divorced the editor Heinrich Studer, and who will become his wife. With Zurich, he attends Arp, Tzara and Picabia. He publishes in particular a vast poem, the Requiem for deaths of 1916 .

Installed in Paris in 1919, the couple binds with writers and artists, Malraux, Leger, Cendrars, Chagall, Delaunay… In 1920, Marcel Mihalovici writes a music for Mélusine , opera in 4 acts of Yvan Goll; the German version, gone back to 1924, will be later on given in music by Aribert Reiman and will be represented as from 1971.

Yvan publishes anthologies of German and French poets and saw her translations. In 1924, it creates the review Surréalisme and is scrambled with Breton and its friends. Its collections of poems, its novels, its tests appear in France and Germany. Among its theatrical works still marked by the expressionnism, Mathusalem or the Eternal Middle-class is most known. In its songs of Jean without Ground , it expresses its loneliness of man, Jewish wandering ballotté between two cultures.

Of 1939 with 1947, the couple is exiled in the United States to escape the persecutions Nazis, living of journalism and literature. Yvan Goll publishes as from 1943, in her review Hémisphères and the editions of the same name, works of Saint-John Perse, Césaire, Breton, Bosquet, Miller, Seligmann… and of young American poets.

The leukemia of which it is reached starting from 1944, the exile far from France, the explosion of the atomic bomb inspire to him a poetic work with the rich person language in whom the forces chthoniennes, alchemy, the cabal, the disintegration of matter hold a great place. On its return of France, it publishes its collections of poems, defines its artistic design, the Réisme , and dies on February 27th, 1950 leaving a poetic will Traumkraut ( the Grass of the Dream ) which will be published by Claire Goll, just as many new poems. Claire Goll, deceased in 1977, bequeathed to the town of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges their French manuscripts, their library, their works of art and their furniture. The unit - of which a reconstitution of its Parisian apartment - there from now on is exposed to the Musée Pierre-Christmas.

A foundation Yvan and Claire Goll , created under the aegis of the Foundation of France in 1991, maintains fall it from the two writers to the Père Lachaise (opposite that of Chopin) and delivers every two years a French-speaking international prize of poetry in partnership with the French-speaking Alliance.

On their tomb, one can read the following epitaph, extracted from Jean without Ground :

I would have lasted more than scum

With the lips of vagueness on sand

Né under no star one evening without the moon

My name was not that a perishable sob

Works

1912 Lorraine Popular songs
1914 Panama Canal
1915 international Elegies . Lampoons against this war. Lausanne, Editions of the Books expressionnists
1917 the Requiem for Immortal deaths of 1916
1920 the
1922 Mathusalem or the Middle-class Eternal
1922 the Five Continents , world Anthology of the contemporary poetry, Paris, Rebirth of the book
1923 New Orphée , Editions of the Siren
1924 Surrealism , re-examined in only one number, Paris, October 1924. Reprinting by Jean-Michel Places, Paris, 2004
1925 Gold. Die fabelhafte Geschichte of Generals Johann August Suter (translation in German of Gold of Blaise Cendrars), Basel, Rhein-Verlag
1925 Poems of Love (with Claire), Paris, Jean Budry and Co
1926 Poems of Jealousy (with Claire), Paris, Jean Budry and Co
1927 Poems of the Life and Dead the (with Claire), Paris, Jean Budry and Co
1927 Die Eurokokke ( growing old Lucifer ), account, Berlin
1927 the Microbe of Gold , novel, Paris, Emile-Paul brothers
1928 With bottom Europe and its German version, Der Mitropäer
1929 Agnus Dei , Paris, Emile-Paul brothers
1929 Sodome and Berlin , novel, Paris, Emile-Paul brothers
1934 growing old Lucifer , Paris, Corrêa
1935 Malayan Songs , Paris, Editions Poetry and Co
1936 the Song of Jean Without Ground , poem
1938 Second book of Jean Without Ground , Paris, Poetry and Co
1939 Third book of Jean without Ground , Paris, Poetry and Co
1946 Fruit from Saturn , English poems
1951 Das Traumkraut , posthumous work.
1971 the Grass of the dream (translation of Das Traumkraut by Claire Goll and Claude Vigée, lithographies of Sonia Delaunay), Editions Characters

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