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173pages. 19x12x1cm. Poche.
104 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1923
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Joseph Delteil
47 books2 followersJoseph 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 spite of the scandal caused by the anti-conformist vision Of the Maid of Orleans. for Breton, this work was a "vast shit". Delteil participated in the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste, but after an interview in which he declared that he never dreamed, he received a letter of rupture from Breton.
In 1931, he fell seriously ill and left literature and Parisian life for the south of France. In 1937, he settled in the Tuilerie de Massane (in Grabels) near Montpellier where he led a peasant-writer life until his death, accompanied by his wife, Caroline Dudley, who was the creator of the Revue nègre.
In his Occitan retreat, he maintained strong friendships with writers (Henry Miller,...), poets (Frédéric Jacques Temple),...), singers (Charles Trenet, Georges Brassens), painters (Pierre Soulages), actors (Jean-Claude Drouot,...). By publishing, in 1968, La Deltheillerie, he regained some of the notoriety of the years 1920, supported by personalities like Jacques Chancel, Jean-Louis Bory, Michel Polac, and Jean-Marie Drot.
He is buried, along with his wife Caroline, in the Pieusse cemetery.
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 spite of the scandal caused by the anti-conformist vision Of the Maid of Orleans. for Breton, this work was a "vast shit". Delteil participated in the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste, but after an interview in which he declared that he never dreamed, he received a letter of rupture from Breton.
In 1931, he fell seriously ill and left literature and Parisian life for the south of France. In 1937, he settled in the Tuilerie de Massane (in Grabels) near Montpellier where he led a peasant-writer life until his death, accompanied by his wife, Caroline Dudley, who was the creator of the Revue nègre.
In his Occitan retreat, he maintained strong friendships with writers (Henry Miller,...), poets (Frédéric Jacques Temple),...), singers (Charles Trenet, Georges Brassens), painters (Pierre Soulages), actors (Jean-Claude Drouot,...). By publishing, in 1968, La Deltheillerie, he regained some of the notoriety of the years 1920, supported by personalities like Jacques Chancel, Jean-Louis Bory, Michel Polac, and Jean-Marie Drot.
He is buried, along with his wife Caroline, in the Pieusse cemetery.
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