Joseph Delteil

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Joseph Delteil (born April 20, 1894 in Villar-en-Val , † April 16, 1978 in Grabels ) was a French poet. Most of the time he lived a rural life in accordance with his origins in the south of France and only in the 1920s in Paris, where he frequented surrealists and had his literary breakthrough.

His father was a woodcutter and charcoal maker and later a winegrower and he grew up south of Carcassonne and in Pieusse near Limoux . Delteil attended school in Limoux and Carcassonne. The first volumes of poetry appeared in 1919 (Le coeur grec) and 1921 (Le cygne androgyne). His first novel Sur le fleuve Amour brought him the attention of Louis Aragon and André Breton and thus found access to the surrealist circles. From 1920 he was in Paris. His novel Jeanne d'Arc caused a scandal, but received the Prix ​​Femina . The film by Carl Theodor Dreyer based on the book. The book was rejected by surrealists such as Breton and it broke. In 1931 he fell seriously ill and decided to move back to the south of France, which he implemented in 1937 (he only rarely visited Paris). He lived in Grabels with his wife Caroline Dudley (founder of the Revue nègre, died 1982) as a writer and farmer. However, he maintained contact with writers and artists such as Pierre Mac Orlan , Robert Delaunay , Marc Chagall , Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Pierre Soulages , Jean-Claude Drouot , Charles Trenet , Georges Brassens and Henry Miller (the correspondence with Miller was published in 1980). He is buried in Pieusse.

In 1926 he published a novel about soldiers in World War I (Les Poilus). He had only limited access to his own experience because he was not a soldier himself. His novel Cholera was published in 1923. In his 1964 essay Die Paläolithische Küche , his German editor saw him as a forerunner of the cuisine brute and terroir movement.

Fonts

German editions:

  • On the banks of the Amur, Klett-Cotta 1988 (Sur le fleuve Amour, translator Jürgen Ritte)
  • Don Juan, Hellerau: Hegner 1930 (translator Frida Langer-Berneis)
  • The Paleolithic Kitchen, Mainz: Thiele 2011 (Translator André Thiele)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jürgen Dollase, A fireworks display for a rabbit , FAZ January 26, 2012