Claude Gauvreau

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Claude Gauvreau (born August 19, 1925 in Montreal , † July 7, 1971 there ) was a Canadian writer .

Gauvreau studied at the Jesuit College Sainte-Marie and until 1947 at the University of Montreal . In 1942 he came to the group of automatists around the painter Paul-Émile Borduas , in which he was active as a poet and playwright, from 1945 also as a critic.

In 1947 his "dramatic object" Bien-être with the actress Muriel Guilbault (his "muse incomparable") was performed. In 1948 he was co-author of the manifesto of the automatists Refus global . After the Guilbault suicide in 1952, Gauvreau went into psychiatric treatment and wrote the novel Beauté baroque about her . In 1954 he organized the last exhibition of the automatists under the title La matière chante .

Between 1952 and 1969 Gauvreau wrote numerous texts for the radio, in addition he wrote plays and poetry. Janou Saint-Denis performed La jeune fille et la lune and Les grappes lucides at the École des beaux-arts in 1958 , the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in 1972 Les oranges sont vertes and in 1974 La charge de l'orignal épormyable .

During Gauvrau's lifetime only the volume of poetry Brochuges appeared in print. An edition of his complete works was not published until 1977. In 1992 Jean Salvy wrote a scenic adaptation of Beauté baroque . In 1993 his correspondence with Jean-Claude Dussault appeared in print. His play L'asile de la pureté was performed in 2003 by the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde .

Works

  • Bien-être , dramatic object, 1947
  • Beauté baroque . Roman, 1952
  • La charge de l'orignal épormyable . Drama, 1956
  • L'Épopée automatiste vue par un cyclope. 1969 (history of automatism from his point of view)
  • La jeune fille et la lune . drama
  • Les grappes lucides , drama
  • L'asile de la pureté , drama
  • Les Oranges sont vertes , drama
  • Brochuges , poems
  • Écrits sur l'art , poems
  • Étal mixed 'et autres poèmes
  • In the middle of the rushes . Drama, excerpt. Translated from Beate Thill. Das Wunderhorn , 2000. (Excerpt from: Au Coeur des Quenouilles. From: Œuvres poétiques complètes, Parti Pris, 1977)

notes

  1. ↑ Contained in Refus global in the version of August 9, 1948 in the exhibition in Henri Tranquille's bookstore, plus 2 additional texts by him
personal data
SURNAME Gauvreau, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH 7th July 1971
Place of death Montreal