Robert Bréchon

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Robert Bréchon (* 1920 ; † July 30, 2012 in Le Pecq ) was a French poet and Lusitanist .

life and work

Bréchon passed the Agrégation in the subject Lettres in 1942 and was a high school teacher in Brazil, England, Egypt and Yugoslavia. The three years as director of the French grammar school in Rio de Janeiro and (from 1962 to 1968 as the successor to Pierre Hourcade ) as head of the Institut français in Lisbon (also cultural attaché of the French embassy) were of particular importance for his Lusitanist literary criticism . In Portugal he had the poet António Ramos Rosa as a friend, made numerous long-term contacts and familiarized himself with the work of Fernando Pessoa , which Pessoa's discoverer Armand Guibert (1906–1990) said he had mediated. Bréchon dedicated five books to Pessoa and published his work (translated into French) in nine volumes. He also wrote about fellow poets Henri Michaux and Michel Leiris , as well as about surrealism .

Bréchon was a Knight of the Legion of Honor and Grand Cross in the Order of Infante Dom Henrique .

Works

Own poetry

  • Les ouvrages du temps , Paris, Chambelland, 1969
  • Mémoire d'homme , Paris, Le Pont de l'Epée, 1983.
  • Contre-chant , Paris, Chambelland, 1987.
  • Echoes, reflets, mirages. Poèmes 1947-2002 , Croissy-Beaubourg, Aden, 2003.
  • (with António Ramos Rosa ) Meditações metapoéticas = Méditations métapoétiques , Lisbon, Caminho, 2003.

About Henri Michaux

  • Michaux , Paris, Gallimard, 1959, 1969.
  • Henri Michaux. La poésie comme destin. Biography , Croissy-Beaubourg, Éd. Aden, 2005.

About Fernando Pessoa

  • (Eduardo Prado Coelho) Oeuvres de Fernando Pessoa , 9 vols., Paris, Christian Bourgois, 1988–1992, 2008.
  • Etrange étranger. Une biographie de Fernando Pessoa , Paris, Christian Bourgois, 1996 (Portuguese, Lisbon 1996, Rio de Janeiro 1999; Spanish, Madrid 1999).
  • L'innombrable. Un tombeau pour Fernando Pessoa , Paris, Christian Bourgois, 2001 (collective publication).
  • Fernando Pessoa. Le voyageur immobile. Biography , Croissy-Beaubourg, Éd. Aden, 2002.
  • Pessoa. Le poète intranquille , Croissy-Beaubourg, Éd. Aden, 2008 (collective publication).
  • (Ed.) Homage to Fernando Pessoa. Essais, études et poèmes , Paris, Pétra, 2014.

Further literary criticism

  • Le Surréalisme , Paris, Armand Colin, 1971.
  • "La condition humaine" d ' André Malraux , Paris, Hachette, 1971.
  • "L'âge d'homme" by Michel Leiris , Paris, Hachette, 1973; Paris, Éd. l'Improviste, 2005.
  • (with Pierre Le Gentil ) La littérature portugaise , Paris 1995.

Essays

  • La fin des lycées , Paris, Grasset, 1970.
  • (with Arlette Bréchon) Les noces d'or , Paris, Albin Michel, 1974.
  • À corps perdu. Essais , Bordeaux, l'Escampette, 2001.
  • Les vies brèves. Alexandre, Spartacus, Jésus, Jeanne d'Arc, Gabrielle d'Estrée, Robespierre, Saint-Just , Paris, l'Inventaire, 2003.

literature

  • Robert Sabatier , Histoire de la poésie française , Vol. 6.3, Paris, Albin Michel, 1988, p. 564.
  • Ana Paula Coutinho, (2004), “António Ramos Rosa e Robert Bréchon. Dois poetas ao espelho de uma poesia sem fronteiras ”, in: Estudos de Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor António Ferreira de Brito , Porto, Faculdade de letras, 2004, pp. 77-93.

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personal data
SURNAME Bréchon, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet and Lusitanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1920
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 2012
Place of death Le Pecq