Colette Peignot

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Colette Peignot

Colette Peignot (born October 6, 1903 in Paris , † November 7, 1938 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ) was a French writer . She published mostly under the pseudonym Laure , less often than Claude Araxe (also abbreviated as C. Araxe ), poetry , prose and political essays . Many of her works remained fragmentary and most of them were only published posthumously .

Life

Colette Peignot grew up in a strictly Catholic and conservative family. As a teenager she broke away from the Roman Catholic Church. In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, both her father and three of her uncles were killed. In the same year Peignot fell ill with tuberculosis ; the disease shaped her further life and her already largely autobiographical literary work. She was in contact with the Parisian surrealists , including Louis Aragon and Luis Buñuel . After stays in Berlin , Leningrad and Moscow , she became increasingly involved in communist groups and finally met Georges Bataille in 1931 , whose lover she became in 1934. She became a member of the anti-fascist-anti-authoritarian secret society Acéphale , which included Bataille, Pierre Klossowski and Roger Caillois . In 1938, Laure died in the presence of Battalion after another attack of tuberculosis.

Act

Similar to her partner Georges Bataille, moments of transgression and the transgression of social norms are also in the foreground in Laures' texts .

Apart from texts in political magazines such as Acéphale , Laure did not publish during her lifetime. Much has remained fragmentary. They were only accessible to the public long after her death in 1938: Laures Écrits was first published in 1971 by Jean-Jacques Pauverts, a Parisian publisher who also published the work of the Marquis de Sade and therefore had to stand trial. Bataille then appeared as an advocate for Pauvert. Pioneering intellectuals of the 1960s and 70s, such as Hélène Cixous , Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir, campaigned for the publication of Laures' writings . They were finally published by Jérôme Peignot, Laures nephew, d. H. her brother's son. Like Laure himself, he broke away from his family and learned about Laures' writings through Michel Leiris - a close friend of Batailles and Laures.

Works in German editions

literature

  • Rita Bischof: Tragic laughter. The story of Acéphale. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88221-689-9 .
  • Georges Bataille: Vie de Laure , in: Œuvres complètes , Volume 6, Paris 1973.
  • Bernd Mattheus : Georges Bataille. A thanatography . 3 vol., Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1984, 1992, 1995, ISBN 3-88222-225-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Mattheus : Some dates of life Laures. In: ders. (Ed.): Laure (Colette Peignot). Fonts. Matthes & Seitz Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-88221-310-8 , pp. 228-229.
  2. ↑ a b c Bernd Mattheus: Some dates of life Laures. In: ders. (Ed.): Laure (Colette Peignot). Fonts. Matthes & Seitz Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-88221-310-8 , pp. 228–229, here p. 228.
personal data
SURNAME Peignot, Colette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laure
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1938
Place of death Saint-Germain-en-Laye