Jacques Prevel
Jacques Marie Prevel (1915 Paris - 1951 ) was a French poet. His real first name was Jacques, but he added 'Marie' not to be mistaken with Jacques Prévert, whose surname is pronounced in a very similar way. During the German occupation he lived in the famous Parisiene district Saint-Germain-des-Près.
Among his friends were the members of the Le Grand Jeu movement, René Daumal and Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, and also Antonin Artaud. Prevel considered Artaud his master, but Artaud admired Prevel's writings as well - he wrote about him (often "more portraying himself" [1]) and dictated his visions to him. Prevel also supplied Artaud with laudanum and opium. Prevel died of tuberculosis in the Sainte-Peyre hospital in the arms of his second love Jany.
Bibliography
Poetry
"It will be essential to work until the end of times, to find again the Gesture and the Word.".[1]
- Poèmes mortels (1945); Mortal poems
- Poèmes pour toute mémoire (1947); Poems for all the memory
- De colère et de haine (1950); From rage and hatred
- En dérive vers l’absolu (1952); On the crossroad to the absolute, posthumously
Diary
- En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud (1974); In the company of Antonin Artaud, posthumously