Jules Supervielle - biography, career, poetry
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Jules Supervielle (January 16, 1884 - May 17, 1960) was a French poet and writer born in Uruguay.
Jules Supervielle always kept away from Surrealism which was dominant in the first half of the twentieth century. Eager to propose a more human poetry and to rejoin the real world, Supervielle rejected the automatic writing (that the surrealist ones well quickly gave up themselves) and dictatorship of unconscious, without to disavow the assets of modern poetry since Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Apollinaire, like certain fundamental innovations of surrealism.
Attentive with the universe which surrounded it as with the phantoms of its interior world, it was one of the first to recommend this vigilance, this control that the following generations, moving away from the surrealist movement, put at the honor. It anticipated the movements of the years 1945-50, dominated by the powerful personalities of Rene Char, Henri Michaux, Saint-John Perse or Francis Ponge, then - after the bracket avant-gardist of the years 1960-70 - those of the poets eager to create a new lyricism and to introduce a certain form of crowned or, at least, a more modest approach to the mysteries of the universe, without radical questioning of the language: Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Dupin, Eugene Guillevic, Jean Grosjean, Andre Frénaud, Andre of Bouchet, Jean Follain, to mention only a few.
Birth of a poet
1922: Publication of its first important collection of poems: Débarcadères .
1923: It is the beginning of a long friendship with Henri Michaux, who will become his close friend. It is as this year as he publishes its first novel: L’homme de la pampa .
1925: He binds with great German poet Rainer Maria Rilke and publishes one of the major poetic collections of the XXth century: Gravitations .
1927: He becomes the close friend of Jean Paulhan and subjects from now on all its texts to him.
1931: He writes its first important collection of news: L’enfant de la haute mer . At that time, it is devoted to many literary activities and acquires the recognition of criticism, including in Uruguay. Its first important play, La belle au bois , is also written at that time. In addition, he will not cease altering its texts, giving place to multiple republications, and the fact of often passing from a literary kind to another.
1938: It binds with René Étiemble.
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