Max Jacob
Max Jacob | |
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Quimper, Finistère, Brittany, France | |
Died | 5 March 1944 Drancy Deportation Camp, France | (aged 67)
Pen name | Léon David Morven le Gaëlique |
Literary movement | School of Paris |
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Max Jacob (French: [maks ʒakɔb]; 12 July 1876 – 5 March 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic.
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After spending his childhood in
Jacob, who was
Max Jacob is regarded as an important link between the
His writings include the novel Saint Matorel (1911), the free verses Le laboratoire central (1921), and La défense de Tartuffe (1919), which expounds his philosophical and religious attitudes.
The famous psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan attributed the quote "The truth is always new" to Jacob.[4]
Death
Having moved outside of Paris in May 1936, to settle in
First interred in
Pseudonyms
As well as his nom d'état civil, or regular name, Jacob worked under at least two pseudonyms, Léon David and Morven le Gaëlique.
In popular culture
German actor Udo Kier plays Jacob in the 2004 film Modigliani. In the 2006 film Monsieur Max, which deals with the life of Jacob from the First World War until his death, he was played by Jean-Claude Brialy; this was Brialy's last film. In the 2013 Spanish film La banda Picasso, Jacob is played by Lionel Abelanski.[8]
Gallery
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Le pardon de Sainte-Anne
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Le clocher de Ploaré
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Le marché à Pont-l'Abbé
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Le calvaire de Guengat
See also
- Lionel Floch
- Furniture music: Erik Satie's second set of furniture music was composed and performed in 1920 as Entr'acte music for one of Jacob's comedies (Ruffian toujours, truand jamais – text of this play is lost)
- The Selected Poems of Max Jacob, trans. William Kulik (Oberlin College Press, 1999), ISBN 0-932440-86-X
- Monsieur Max (2007), French TV movie starring Jean-Claude Brialy as Jacob, in Brialy's last film role
References
- ISBN 1438106874.
- ISBN 0803225741.
- ^ "Max Jacob". 21 March 2020.
- ^ Lacan, Jacques (2008) My Teaching, Verso Press.
- ^ "Les Collections".
- ^ a b "Marie-Jo Bonnet raconte les résistantes oubliées". February 2013.
- ISBN 978-0-300-10010-5.
- ^ Holland, Jonathan (5 February 2013). "Picasso's Gang". Variety. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
External links
- Marevna, "Homage to Friends from Montparnasse" (1962) Top left to right: Moise Kisling.
- Association les Amis de Max Jacob (in French)
- English translations from Max Jacob's major collection of prose poetry The Dice Cup