Jean Thiercelin

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Jean Thiercelin (born January 2, 1927 in Paris , † April 29, 1999 in Cadenet , Département Vaucluse ) was a French writer and painter of surrealism .

Live and act

Thiercelin regularly spent his holidays with relatives in Aubergenville ( Yvelines department ) and Royan ( Charente-Maritime department ). He experienced the German occupation in his hometown.

After Royan's destruction, Thiercelin began helping the Resistance . He ran errands for the Maquisards and was caught on April 14, 1944 and imprisoned in La Santé prison ( Montparnasse ). After the liberation of Paris , it was months before Thiercelin was finally released. This injustice made him a fighter against social injustice throughout his life.

In the post-war period, Thiercelin joined André Breton and his surrealist friends. During this time he was also able to succeed as a writer in Édouard Jaguer's magazine Phases .

Thiercelin was enthusiastic about Provence and regularly went on excursions there with his first wife Nanouche and their daughter. He also always visited the Château Noir near Le Tholonet ( Bouches-du-Rhône ), as the Phalanstère had rented there; a kind of living and working community founded by Aube and Yves Elléouët . Members were u. a. Léon Bellefleur (1910–2007), Jean Benoît (1922–2010), Marcelle Ferron (1924–2001), Roland (1929–2003) and Denise Giguère and Mimi Parent (1924–2005).

On September 5, 1960, Thiecelin was one of the signatories of the 121st Manifesto .

In 1968 Thiecelin left Paris forever with his second wife Raquel Mejiras, daughter of Spanish exiles, and settled in Cadenet. From there, he went on extensive trips to Africa, Canada, Central and South America and Tibet, both alone and with his wife.

Jean Thiercelin died on April 29, 1999 at the age of 72 in Cadenet, where he found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

stories
  • Don Felipe . Édition Quadri, Brussels 1999 (EA 1969)
  • Description pour Bevinco . L'émpreinte et la nuit, Aix-en-Provence 1981.
  • Journal d'Oedipe . Édition Xamal, Saint-Louis du Sénégal 1986.
Poems
  • Sept lettre pour mes amis . L'émpreinte et la nuit, Aix-en-Provence 1966.
  • Demeures you passe vent . Édition L'Hexagone, Montreal 1974.
  • Trois dires pour un pays . L'émpreinte et la nuit, Aix-en-Provence 1978.
  • Poemes . Édition Xamal, Saint-Louis du Sénégal 1986.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1965 Galerie Connaître, Paris
  • 1966 Maison Van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise
  • 1972 Saint-Laurent Gallery, Brussels
  • 1977 Les Deux B Gallery, Québec

literature

  • Alain-Valéry Aelberts, Jean-Jacques Auquier (Eds.): Poètes singuliers du surréalisme et d'autres lieux . UGE, Paris 1971, pp. 263-271.
  • Simon Baker: Surrealism. History and revolution . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-03911-091-9 .
  • Alain Biro, René Passeron: Dictionnaire général du surréalisme . PUF, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-13-037-280-5 , p. 403.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Named after the social theorist Charles Fourier (1772–1837).
  2. ^ Daughter of André Breton
  3. ^ A translation into Spanish by Raquel Mejiras appeared in Madrid in 1974.
  4. ↑ This anthology appeared under the pseudonym Tsering Rimpoché .
personal data
SURNAME Thiercelin, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and surrealist painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1999
Place of death Cadenet , Vaucluse department