Pierre Jean Jouve

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Painting by Pierre Jean Jouve by Claire Bertrand (fr) .

Pierre Jean Jouve (born October 11, 1887 in Arras , † January 8, 1976 in Paris ) was a French writer, literary critic and supporter of Sigmund Freud . Significant above all for his poetry , he also published prose , e.g. B. the novel Paulina 1880 (1925).

Life

Pierre Jean Jouve was born in Arras in northern France in 1887 . His father Alfred was an insurance company manager. His mother Eugénie Aimée Rosé aroused an interest in music in him early on. Sister Madeleine, who was born in 1889, later married Pierre Castiau, who had a great influence on Jouve's intellectual development as a writer.

In 1902 Jouve had to undergo an appendix operation, after which he suffered from fatigue and depression for several years. At the University of Lille he studied law and published poetry reviews under the title Les bandeaux d'or . In 1910 he married Marie Caroline Charpentier, a historian who took care of his troubled health. Their son, Olivier, was born in 1914. Retired from the French military, Jouve worked as a nurse during the First World War and joined the pacifist movement around Romain Rolland . In 1921 he met Blanche Reverchon, for whom he divorced his wife Marie Caroline and with whom he lived in a Paris apartment from 1923 .

In 1925 he published his novel Paulina 1880 , which is about himself and the character Hélène, a mixture of different women. The novel Hécate followed in 1928 , which was continued in 1931 with Vagadu . Both novels depict the life of an unfortunate Parisian actress and were later published in one volume under the title The Adventures of Catherine Crachat ( Aventure de Catherine Crachat ). After Jouve Hécate had written, he first came into contact with the teaching of psychoanalysis , so that in his sequel Vagadu he subjects his main character Catherine Crachat to a psychoanalysis.

From then on, he concentrated in his works on the teachings of Sigmund Freud , in which the subconscious is dominated by sexual energy and accompanied by feelings of guilt and shame. In 1933 he and his partner Blanche wrote an article called Moments d'une psychanalysis . In the same year he wrote a collection of poems under the title Sueur de sang .

During the 1940s he supported the French Resistance against the German occupation in World War II . He died in Paris in 1976.

Works (selection)

  • Poème contre le grand crime (1916), German by Felix Beran , Zurich: Max Rascher 1918
  • Paulina 1880 (1925), German by Elisabeth Borchers , Neuwied, Berlin: Luchterhand 1964
  • Le Monde désert (1927)
  • Les Noces (1928)
  • Hécate (1928)
  • Le Paradis perdu (1929)
  • Vagadu (1931)
  • Sueur de sang (1933)
  • Le Don Juan de Mozart (1942)
  • Tombeau de Baudelaire (1942)
  • Diadème (1949)
  • Melodrame (1954)
  • Invention (1959)
  • La Scène Capitale (1961)
  • Ténèbres (1964)

Film adaptations of his works

In 1972 Paulina made a French canvas adaptation in 1880 with Maximilian Schell . The two novels Hécate and Vagadu , which were first published in one volume in 1947 as The Adventures of Catherine Crachat ( Aventure de Catherine Crachat ), were filmed in 1990 with Fanny Ardant and Hanna Schygulla (see Aventure de Catherine C. ).

literature

  • Hermann Bahr : September 12 [1922]. In: Love of the Living. Diaries 1921/23. Hildesheim: Borgmeyer 1925, II, 221–223.

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personal data
SURNAME Jouve, Pierre Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Arras
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1976
Place of death Paris