Pierre Emmanuel
Noël Mathieu (3 May 1916, Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques – 24 September 1984, Paris) better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1968, president of PEN International between 1969 and 1971, president of French PEN Club between 1973 and 1976, and the first president of the French Institut national de l'audiovisuel in 1975.
Works
Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article (for poetry) or "[year] in literature" article (for prose):
Poetry
- 1940: Elégies[1]
- 1941: Tombeau d'Orphée[1]
- 1942: Le Poète et son Christ[1]
- 1943: Jour de colère ("Day of Wrath"), including "Hymne de la liberté" ("Hymn to Freedom")[2]
- 1943: "Les dents serrées", published in L’Honneur des poètes anthology, Éditions de Minuit[3]
- 1943: La Colombe[1]
- 1944: Le Poète fou ("The Mad Poet")[1]
- 1944: Mémento des vivants[1]
- 1944: Sodome[1]
- 1945: Combats avec tes défenseurs[4]
- 1945: La liberté guide nos pas[1]
- 1947: Poésie, raison ardente[1]
- 1947: Qui est cet homme[1]
- 1949: Car enfin je vous aime[1]
- 1952: Babel[1]
- 1956: Visage Nuage[1]
- 1958: Versant de l'Âge[1]
- 1961: Evangéliaire[1]
- 1963: Le Goût de l'un[1]
- 1963: La Nouvelle Naissance[1]
- 1965: La Face Humaine[1]
- 1970: Jacob[1]
- 1973: Sophia[1]
- 1976: La Vie Terrestre[1]
- 1978: Tu[1]
- Le Livre de l'Homme et de la Femme, a trilogy:[1]
- 1981: L'Arbre et le Vent[1]
- 1981: Le grand oeuvre, published a few weeks before his death[4]
- 1984: Le grand œuvre. Une cosmogonie
Posthumously published
- 2001: Tombeau d'Orphée suivi de Hymnes orphiques, édition établie et préfacée par Anne-Sophie Andreu, Lausanne, L'Âge d'homme, coll. Amers, 2001.
- 2001: Œuvres poétiques complètes, Lausanne, L'Âge d'homme, 2001, t. I, 1940-1963.
- 2003: Œuvres poétiques complètes, Lausanne, L'Âge d'homme, 2003, t. II, 1970-1984.
- 2005: Lettres à Albert Béguin : correspondance 1941-1952 (édition établie et annotée par Aude Préta-de Beaufort). Lausanne, Paris : L'Âge d'homme, coll. « Cahiers Pierre Emmanuel » n° 2, 2005. ISBN 2-8251-1921-0.
Prose
- 1950: The Universal Singular: The Autobiography of Pierre Emmanuel (trans. Erik de Mauny), Grey Walls Press: London.
- 1967: Le monde est intérieur ("The World is Inside")[1]
Interviews
- « Les dernières interrogations de Pierre Emmanuel » Emmanuel's final interview conducted by Damian Pettigrew, published in Le Monde, 7 October 1984
References
- "Pierre Emmanuel (1916-1984)" (in French). Académie française. 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Web pages titled "Œuvres de Pierre EMMANUEL" (for information on years of publication) and "Pierre EMMANUEL (1916-1984)", for identification as works of poetry, at the Académie française website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Pierre Emmanuel, "Jour de colère", "Hymne de la liberté" at the oodoc.com website (translation "Day of Wrath" from Google), retrieved July 11, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Baccalauréat : épreuve anticipée de français" (in French), retrieved July 11, 2010
- 1 2 Web page titled "PIERRE EMMANUEL PAPERS" at the Wichita State University Libraries website, retrieved July 11, 2010
External links
- Pierre Emmanuel - The official site of Pierre Emmanuel
- PEN International
| Non-profit organization positions | ||
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| Preceded by Arthur Miller |
International President of PEN International 1969–1971 |
Succeeded by Heinrich Böll |
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