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Joseph Delteil

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Joseph Delteil


Born
in Villar-en-Val, France
April 20, 1894

Died
April 16, 1978

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Joseph Delteil was born in the farm of La Pradeille, from a woodcutter-charcoal father and a "buissonnière" mother. The publication in 1922 of his first novel Sur le fleuve Amour attracted the attention of Louis Aragon and Andre Breton for whom this work "compensated for so many devils to the body." Delteil collaborated with the magazine Literature and participated in the drafting of the pamphlet Un cadavre written in response to the national funeral of Anatole France (October 1924). Breton quotes him in his Surrealist Manifesto as one of those who have done "an act of absolute surrealism."

The publication in 1925 of his Jeanne d'Arc, a work rewarded by the Prix Femina, aroused the rejection of the Surrealists and of Breton in particular, in
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Average rating: 3.51 · 57 ratings · 7 reviews · 47 distinct works
Jeanne d'Arc

3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1925 — 10 editions
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Choléra

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1923 — 8 editions
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Les Poilus

3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1925 — 6 editions
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Jésus II (Les Cahiers Rouges)

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Les Chats de Paris: Présent...

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Don Juan

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La Deltheillerie

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Les cinq sens

1.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1924
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Oeuvres complètes

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Joan of Arc,

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