André Frénaud

André Frénaud (born July 26, 1907 in Montceau-les-Mines , † June 21, 1993 in Paris ) was a French poet and essayist.

Life

Frénaud studied philosophy and law in Paris. In 1930 he became a lecturer in French at Lvov University. In 1937 he accepted a position in the French Ministry of Transport, which he held until 1967.

In 1939 Frénaud was called up for military service and was taken prisoner by Germany. His Poèmes de Brandebourg , which reflect this period, made him known as a writer. In 1942 he managed to flee to France with false papers. In the following years he published in underground publishing houses of his friend Paul Éluard under the pseudonym Benjamin Phelisse .

He was known to painters like Joan Miró , Antoni Tàpies , Eduardo Chillida and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva , who created illustrations for his poems. In 1985 he published a collection of essays on Jean René Bazaine and Raoul Ubac under the title Ubac et les fondements de son art .

In 1973 Frénaud received the Grand Prix de Poésie de l'Académie française , in 1985 the Grand Prix national de Poésie . In 1987 he was poète invité at the Avignon Festival. His poems were u. a. Translated by Giuseppe Ungaretti , Franco Fortini and Eugenio Montale . So far, only the selection of poems Quelle der Quellen (1962) has appeared in German in a translation by Paul and Marlies Pörtner by Luchterhand, then Neuwied and Spandau.

Works

• Poèmes d'Avant-Guerre , 1938-1939
• Poèmes de Brandebourg
• Les Rois Mages , 1943
• Poèmes de dessous de plancher , 1949
• Agonie du général Krivitski , 1960
• II n'y a pas de paradis , 1962
• La Sainte Face , 1968.
• La Sorcière de Rome , 1973.
  • The Witch of Rome : Poems. Lama, Vienna, Edition per procura. 2002, ISBN 3-901118-48-9 .
• Notre inhabileté fatale , 1979.
• La vie comme elle tourne . Maeght Éditeur, Paris 1979.
• Haeres , 1982.
• Ubac et les fondements de son art , 1985.
• Nul ne s'égare , 1986.

Web links

• Literature by and about André Frénaud in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Francis Wybrands: André Frénaud (1907-1993)