Jean Prévost
Jean Prévost (13 June 1901 – 1 August 1944) was a French writer, journalist, and Resistance fighter.
Biography
Born in
In 1926 he married Marcelle Auclair with whom he had three children (Michel, Françoise and Alain). They divorced in 1939.
In June 1925, Adrienne Monnier launched a French language review, Le Navire d'Argent,[2] and invited Prévost to be its literary editor.[3] Le Navire d'Argent was international in its scope and published American works in translation as well as devoting an issue (March 1926) to American writers including Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams and E. E. Cummings.[3] It also first introduced Ernest Hemingway in translation to French audiences.[3] Prévost was the first to commission a work from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, publishing The Aviator in the review's eleventh issue.[3] After twelve issues, the project had to be abandoned as the effort and the cost was more than Monnier could bear.[3]
At the beginning of World War II, he was mobilized and assigned to telephone control at Le Havre. After his first marriage ended, he married Claude Van Biema, a doctor. He was evacuated by sea to Casablanca and returned to France later.
French Resistance Member
He joined the underground National Committee of Writers, created by
He was a
The lycées (secondary schools) in Villard-de-Lans and Montivilliers are named in his honor.
Literary works
- Plaisirs des sports, 1925 ;
- Dix-huitième année, 1928 ;
- Les frères Bouquinquant, 1930 ;
- Vie de Montaigne, essai, 1931
- Histoire de la France depuis la guerre, 1932 ;
- Le sel sur la plaie, roman, 1934 ;
- La chasse du matin, roman, 1937 ;
- Lucie-Paulette, 1935 ;
- La Terre est aux hommes, 1936 ;
- Usonie, esquisse de la civilisation américaine, 1939 ;
- Beaudelaire, essai, 1953.
Notes and sources
- Notes
- ^ a b c d Lefebvre (2006).
- ^ English: "The Silver Ship"
- ^ a b c d e Schiff (2006), pp. 120–125.
- ^ a b Garcin (1994), pp. 19 & 30.
- Sources
- This article began as a translation of its French equivalent.
- Fitch, Noel Riley (1985). Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties & Thirties. New York & London: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-30231-8.
- Garcin, Jérôme (1994). Pour Jean Prévost (in French). Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-07-041017-0.
- Lefebvre, Lucien (1 February 2006). "Histoire de Jean Prevost l'homme" [History of Jean Prévost, the man] (in French). Lycée Jean Prévost, Montivilliers. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
- Prévost, Michel (2002). Retrouver Jean Prévost (in French). Grenoble, France: Presse Universitaire Grenoble. ISBN 978-2-7061-1048-1.
- ISBN 978-0-8050-7913-5.
External links
- Biography at the Wayback Machine (archived March 15, 2005)
- Les Impressions nouvelles - Jean Prévost aux avant-postes
- www.jeanprevost.org
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