René Crevel
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| Born | René Crevel 10 August 1900 Paris, France |
| Died | 18 June 1935 (aged 34) Paris, France |
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René Crevel (French: [kʁəvɛl]; 10 August 1900 – 18 June 1935) was a French writer involved with the surrealist movement.
Life
Crevel was born in Paris to a family of Parisian bourgeoisie. He had a traumatic religious upbringing. At the age of fourteen, his father committed suicide by hanging himself.
Crevel studied literature and law at the
From 1924, Crevel wrote novels such as Détours and Mon Corps et moi ("My Body and Me") where he would extensively write about his fears, his revolt and his feeling of malaise. In 1926 was published La Mort difficile ("Difficult Death"), a novel where he depicts his lover McCown as "Arthur Bruggle". The publication ended their love affair, though Crevel would be close to McCown till the end of his life.
Also in 1924, he was diagnosed with
Crevel killed himself by turning on the
When Breton included the question "Suicide: Is It a Solution?" in the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste in 1925, Crevel was one of those who answered "Yes". He wrote "It is most probably the most correct and most ultimate solution."
Publications
Original French
- Détours (1924)
- Mon Corps et moi (1925)
- La Mort difficile (1926)
- Babylone (1927)
- L'Esprit contre la raison (1928)
- Êtes-vous fous? (1929)
- Le Clavecin de Diderot (1932)
- Les Pieds dans le plat (1933)
- Le Roman cassé et derniers écrits (1934–1935)
English translations
- My Body and I (translation of Mon Corps et Moi; Archipelago Books, 2005)
- Babylon (translation of Babylone), translated by ISBN 0-86547-191-6; Sun and Moon Press, 1996)
- Putting My Foot in It (translation of Les Pieds dans le plat; Dalkey Archive Press, 1994)
- Difficult Death (translation of La Mort difficile; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986)
- 1830 (Elysium Press, 1996)
- The Noble Mannequin Seeks and Finds her Skin; 1934 (translation from French in 'The Surrealism Reader); Tate Publishing 2015, ISBN 9781854376688
- Are You All Crazy? (translation of Êtes-vous fous?; Snuggly Books, 2023)
References
- ^ Renee Winegarten, "The golden boy of Surrealism: On René Crevel", The New Criterion, February 1987, "The golden boy of Surrealism by Renee Winegarten". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2013-12-26.
- La Nouvelle Revue française
- ^ Crevel, René (1932). Le Clavecin de Diderot. Paris: Éditions Surréalistes. p. 161, "Afterword".
- ^ Crevel, René (1932). Le Clavecin de Diderot. Paris: Éditions Surréalistes. p. 162, "Afterword".
External links
- Putting My Foot in It. Official site for this translation.
- René Crevel, Freud de l’Alchimiste à l’Hygiéniste, Revue Le Disque Vert, 2e année, 3e Série, n°1, 1924.
- René Crevel, Notes en vue d’une psycho-dialectique, Revue Le Surréalisme Au Service De La Révolution, n° 5, May 1933.
- René Crevel at Find a Grave
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