Gisèle Prassinos

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Gisèle Prassinos
Born26 February 1920
translator
LanguageGreek, French
NationalityFrench
EducationLycée-collège Victor Duruy
GenrePoetry, novel, tale
Years active1934–2009
Notable worksThe Arthritic Grasshopper and Other Tales (1934)
Le rêve (1947)
Brelin le frou ou le portrait de famille (1975)
SpousePierre Fridas
RelativesLysandre Prassinos (father)
Victorine Prassinos (mother)
Mario Prassinos (brother)
Catherine Prassinos (niece)

Gisèle Prassinos (26 February 1920 – 15 November 2015) was a French writer associated with the

surrealist movement.[1]

Early life and education

Gisèle Prassinos was born in

surrealists of the time recognised these early writings as a "veritable illustration of automatic language par excellence."[This quote needs a citation
]

Career

Her writing was discovered by

Gallimard, 1940). Prassinos also started creating plastic arts by illustrating Lewis Carroll's
La chasse au snark, published by Éditions Belfond in 1946.

She then began her first forays into narrative with Le rêve (Fontaine, 1947), a novel about

childhood and the tensions between the past and the present.[6]

During the World War II and until the end of the 1950s, she stopped publishing. After the World War II Prassinos's association with organised surrealism was limited, but she continued to publish widely. She worked in kindergartens and translated with her husband Pierre Fridas several books by Níkos Kazantzákis such as La liberté ou la mort (Plon, 1953) or Alexis Zorba (Plon, 1958). Subsequently, she returned to writing poems and novels, in opposition to surrealist orthodoxy. However, these texts are unclassifiable. She then published Le temps n'est rien (Plon, 1958), an autofiction in which the conflict between the past and the present is still central,[7] and Le visage effleuré de peine (Grasset, 1964). She also wrote short novels, such as Brelin le frou, ou le portrait de famille (Éditions Belfond, 1975), a volume of tales describing characters who live according to fantastic rules. This work was illustrated by the author and her drawings, caricatured and with exaggerated proportions, have the particularity of wearing a headdress in the image of her sex. The stories in Mon cœur les écoute (1982) show a poetic humour close to that of Henri Michaux or Joyce Mansour. She is also known for her drawings and tapestries, artworks made with pieces of coloured cloth.

After this stage, she published mainly

fantasy novels, such as La table de famille (Flammarion, 1993) and poetry
(La fièvre du labour, published by Motus in 1989). Subsequently, she participated in reprints of works such as Le visage effleuré de peine (Cardinal, 2000) and Mon cœur les écoute (Le mot fou Éditions, 2009).

Legacy

Prassinos bequeathed to the

manuscripts. Her artistic work was bequeathed to her niece Catherine Prassinos.[8]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Gisèle PRASSINOS" (in French). leshommessansepaules. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Mario Prassinos' webpage".
  3. ^ Biro & Passeron, op. cité
  4. ^ Colvile, op. cité, p. 248
  5. ^ Anthologie de l'humour noir, retrieved from Archive.org
  6. ^ Richard, Annie (1997). Le monde suspendu de Gisèle Prassinos (in French). H.B. Éditions.
  7. ISSN 1923-0915
    – via Érudit.
  8. ^ Catherine Prassinos' website

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