Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (18 May 1907, in
Josef Šíma) of the artistic group and magazine Le Grand Jeu. The group, associated with surrealists, was "excommunicated" from the movement by André Breton. Gilbert-Lecomte used drugs, in particular morphine
, for both artistic and sociological reasons. As was predicted in his poetry, his death was the result of an infection caused by the use of dirty hypodermic needles.
"Coma Crossing: Collected Poems", Schism Books, 2019, is the most comprehensive bilingual anthology of his poetry and "Theory of the Great Game" (Atlas Books, 2015) gives a hefty selection of his prose, along with that of René Daumal and other members of "Le Grand Jeu."
Bibliography
- Le grand jeu (nos 1, 2, et 3)
- Testament (1955)
- Sacre et massacre de l'amour (1960)
- Tétanos mystique (1972)
- Lettres à Benjamin Fondane (1985)
- Monsieur Morphée empoisonneur public (1966)
- Correspondance (1971)
- Arthur Rimbaud (1971)
- L'horrible révélation… la seule (1973)
- Œuvres complètes, 2 volumes (1974–1977)
- Caves en plein ciel (1977)
- Neuf haï kaï (1977)
- Poèmes et chroniques retrouvés (1982)
- Mes chers petits éternels (1992)
- La vie, l'amour, la mort, le vide et le vent
- Joseph Sima (2000)
- Le miroir noir
- Black Mirror: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (Station Hill Press, 1991)
- The Book is a Ghost: Thoughts and Paroxysms for going Beyond (Solar▲Luxuriance, 2015)
- 'Coma Crossing: Collected Poems' (Schism Books, 2019)
External links
- French Wikisource has original text related to this article: Roger Gilbert-Lecomte