René Depestre
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René Depestre (born August 29, 1926 in Jacmel , Haiti ) is considered an important Haitian intellectual , writer and activist of the 20th century.
Life
René Depestre grew up in Jacmel and in a neighboring village. When his father died in 1936, he had to leave school for the time being, moved to his grandmother in Jacmel and completed an apprenticeship as a tailor . In 1941 he moved to his mother in Port-au-Prince, attended the renowned Lycée Alexandre-Pétion and in 1943/1944 the seminary in Port-au-Prince for a year , as he intended to join the Spiritans . He began to be politically active and met Nicolás Guillén , André Breton , Jacques Roumain , Jean Price-Mars, Aimé Césaire and Alejo Carpentier , who encouraged and influenced him in his literary beginnings.
His first volume of short stories was published in Port-au-Prince in 1945 . In the same year he published a revolutionary magazine. In it he published a homage to the surrealist André Breton, who was just a guest on the island. It caused a sensation and sparked a revolt of high school and college students that led to the overthrow of Élie Lescot's government in 1946 . Then Depestre was briefly arrested because he was considered a leader. The new president, Dumarsais Estimé , who took office in August 1946, soon awarded Depestre a scholarship to study in France, thus taking the rebel out of the country.
So Depestre left his home in 1946. He lived in Paris , Santiago de Chile , São Paulo , Cuba and southern France. He has lived in Lézignan-Corbières since 1980 .
Depestre wrote several novels and numerous poems. His political writings deal with Haiti's political and social problems and the oppression of blacks.
Works (selection)
- Poetry
- Anthology personal. Poésie . Actes Sud, Arles 1993, ISBN 2-86869-959-6 .
- En état de poésie . Edition français réunis, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-201-01537-6 .
- Journal d'un animal marin. Choix de poèmes, 1956-1990 . Gallimard, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-07-072108-6 .
- Ode à Malcolm X . Grande Brigitte . In: Peter Thompson (Ed.): Littérature moderne du monde francophone. Une anthology . McGraw-Hill, Chicago, Ill. 1997, ISBN 978-0-8442-1588-4 .
- Rage de vivre. Œuvres poétiques complètes . Seghers, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2-232-12280-4 .
- prose
- From the diary of a marine animal . Verlag Volk & Welt, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-353-00046-1 (bilingual, German-French).
- Eros in un train chinois. New histoires d'amour et un conte de sorcier . Gallimard, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-07-038597-3 .
- Hadriana in all my dreams. Novel . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1990, ISBN 3-518-22252-X .
- L'œillet ensorcelé et autres nouvelles . Gallimard, Paris 2005, ISBN 978-2-07-031985-5 .
- The Schlaraffenbaum. A novel from the Caribbean (“le mât de cognac”). Rotpunkt-Verlag, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-85869-041-4 .
- Non-fiction
- Ainsi parle le fleuve noir . Editions “Paroles de l'Aube”, Grigny 1998, ISBN 2-84384-009-0 .
- Bonjour et Adieu à la Négritude . Laffont, PAris 1980, ISBN 2-221-00570-8 .
- Le métier à métisser . Stock, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-234-04961-X .
- Non-assistance à poètes en danger . Seghers, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-232-12269-7 .
- Pour the revolution, pour la poésie . Leméac, Montreal 1974, ISBN 0-7761-3910-X .
literature
- Claude Couffon: René Depestre . Seghers, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-221-01254-2 (Poètes d'aujourd'hui; 252).
Web links
- Literature by and about René Depestre in the catalog of the German National Library
- Authors at Suhrkamp
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d Léon-François Hoffmann: Chronologie de René Depestre , accessed on July 30, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Depestre, René |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Haitian intellectual, writer and activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jacmel , Haiti |