Jean Venturini

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Jean Venturini around 1939

Jean Venturini (born September 17, 1919 in Nabeul , Tunisia , † June 17, 1940 in a submarine sinking in the Mediterranean ) was a French poet .

Life

Jean Venturini spent most of his childhood in Morocco . In his youth he studied at a high school near Meknes . At the age of 16, he began writing many poems that were later collected in the book Outlines and published in November 1939. It was his only work, because he died in June 1940 along with the entire crew of the Morse submarine , which ran into a sea ​​mine and exploded. He previously trained as a sailor before joining the French Navy in 1939 .

Outlines is a collection of poems heavily influenced by the theories of the poet Arthur Rimbaud . Stylistically and with its themes, this work is classified in the surrealist aesthetic .

Works

Book cover of a volume of poetry from 1939
  • Outlines , collection of poems, Casablanca, Éditions du Moghreb , November 1939, 80 pages.
  • Outlines  : New edition with a biographical afterword about the sinking of the submarine "Morse", Paris, Vaillant, June 2009, 112 pages ( ISBN 978-2-916986-06-7 )
  • Other poetry not published in a book:
    • Ballade d'un qui part , poem published in Fontaine magazine in December 1939
    • Une Pierre dans l'eau , poem published in Poésie 40 magazine in May 1940
    • Victime d'affiches , unpublished manuscript, June 1940 (poem sent in a letter to a friend)

literature

  • Pierre Seghers, Le Livre d'or de la Poésie française , first volume: "Des origines à 1940", Paris, Marabout, 1998, 488 pages ( ISBN 978-2-501026-35-2 )
  • Collective work, Dictionnaire des lettres françaises , sixth volume: "Le xxe siècle", Paris, LGF-Le Livre de Poche, 1998, 1174 pages ( ISBN 2-253-13109-1 )
  • “La mémoire engloutie”, a literary study by Jean-Luc Falco, foreword to Outlines
  • Collective work, anthology des écrivains morts à la guerre , 1939–1945, Paris, Albin Michel, 1998, 808 pages ( ISBN 9782226045126 )

Web links

Commons : Jean Venturini  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Article "Jean Venturini, marin mort pour la France et poète" by Madeleine Kérisit
  2. ^ Monograph de Jean Venturini, inspired by Madeleine Kérisit, on the website Mémorial national aux marins morts pour la France .
  3. ^ Pierre Seghers, Le Livre d'or de la Poésie française , first volume: "Des origines à 1940", Paris, Marabout, 1998, page 451.
  4. ↑ Collective work, Dictionnaire des lettres françaises , sixth volume: “Le xxe siècle”, Paris, LGF-Le Livre de Poche, 1998, page 1135.
personal data
SURNAME Venturini, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Venturini, Jean-Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sailor and poet of surrealism
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Nabeul , Tunisia
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1940
Place of death Mediterranean Sea