Gilbert Lély

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Gilbert Lély (born March 19, 1904 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , † June 4, 1985 in Paris ) was a French surrealist and erotic poet , admired by André Suarès , André Breton and Yves Bonnefoy .

Lély was part of the Surrealists in the 1930s . His first book Les Métamorphoses (1930) was a translation of poems. He then wrote Arden (1933) and La Sylphide ou l'Étoile carnivore (1938). During the war he was friends with René Char . His main work was Ma Civilization (1942), illustrated by Lucien Coutaud . He then wrote La Folie Tristan (1954).

In the biography Vie du marquis de Sade (1952–1957) he worked on de Sade historically and described his political development without reducing him to clichés. The work was only possible because Xavier Henri Marie de Sade opened the family archive for the first time in four generations. From Maurice Heine he took on the task of bringing out Sade's works. The complete work edition (1962–64) also includes previously unpublished correspondence.

Lély wrote about the history of medicine in the journal Hippocrate . His late work consists of L'Épouse infidèle (1966) and the dramatic poem Solomonie la Possédée (1979).

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SURNAME Lély, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet, writer and surrealist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuilly-sur-Seine
DATE OF DEATH June 4th 1985
Place of death Paris