Demande d'Emploi

by Jacques Rigaut

Rigaut jacques, ami de Drieu la Rochelle, récupéré par André Breton, connu pour ce qu'on appellerait aujourd'hui des punch lines. Il mêle à loisir, désillusion, cynisme, humour et suicide.

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Published December 9, 2019

About the author

Jacques Rigaut was a French surrealist poet. Born in Paris, he was part of the Dadaist movement. His works frequently talked about suicide and he came to regard its successful completion as his occupation. In 1929 at the age of 30, as he had announced, Rigaut shot himself, using a ruler to be sure the bullet would pass through his heart.

He is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre.
His suicide inspired the book Le Feu Follet by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle. The movie The Fire Within (1963) directed by Louis Malle is based on this book.