Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
Roger Lecomte (born May 18, 1907 in Reims , † December 31, 1943 in Paris ) was an avant-garde French poet. He called himself Roger Gilbert-Lecomte .
Life
Gilbert-Lecomte was one of the founders of the group Le Grand Jeu and the literary-philosophical journal of the same name, which appeared in 1928–1932.
Lecomte died of tetanus infection due to dirty hypodermic needles, in connection with his experimental drug experience. He is buried in Reims.
For a long time his independent work was perceived at best as a footnote to the history of French surrealism . In recent years it has been rediscovered and republished, also in English and American translations.
Works (selection)
- Contributions in: Le Grand Jeu (No. 1–3) (1928–1930)
- Le Grand Jeu n ° 1 à 4, 1928–1932. Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris 1977 (No. 4 is a retrospective compilation of texts)
- La Vie, l'Amour, la Mort, Le Vide et le Vent. (1933)
- Le miroir noir. (1937)
- Testament. (1955)
- Monsieur Morphée empoisonneur public. (1966, new edition 2011)
- Arthur Rimbaud. (1971)
- Correspondance. (1971)
- Tétanos mystique. (1972)
- Œuvres complètes. (2 volumes, 1974–1977)
- Neuf haï kaï. (1977)
- Poèmes et chroniques retrouvés. (1982)
- Black Mirror. Selected Poems. (1991) (bilingual French-English edition, with a foreword by Antonin Artaud )
- Mes chers petits éternels. (1992)
- Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Léon Pierre-Quint: Correspondance 1927–1939. (2011)
- Le Grand Jeu. A selection. Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-923211-13-5 . ( online (pdf) )
literature
- Roland Dumas: Plaidoyer pour Roger Gilbert-Lecomte. 1985.
- Cédric Demangeot: Roger Gilbert-Lecomte - votre peau n'a pas toujours été votre limite. 2001.
- Irène Pauline Bourlas: Rog-Jarl, Ange du Grand Jeu: La spiritualité de Roger Gilbert-Lecomte. Paris 2007.
Web links
- Website to Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (English)
- Les poèmes des poètes du Grand Jeu.
- List of contents of the four issues of Le Grand Jeu
- Literature by and about Roger Gilbert-Lecomte in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gilbert-Lecomte, Roger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lecomte, Roger (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reims |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1943 |
| Place of death | Paris |