"GEORGES RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES' ABSOLUTE SYMBOLISM" IN: DRAMATURGIES – DRAMATIC LANGUAGES, MISCELLANEOUS FOR JACQUES SCHERER, PARIS, NIZET, 1986, PP. 37-47.
Jacques Schérer (1912-1997), well known for his Classical Dramaturgy (1950), co-founder of the Institute of Theater Studies at the Sorbonne (then at the New Sorbonne), retired in 1983. Banned from teaching by Vichy's anti-Semitic laws, he had been able to extend his career beyond the legal retirement age, which enraged his colleague Jacques Robichez (1914-1999). He had been my research director for my 3rd cycle thesis on Roger Vitrac, being the only professor at the Sorbonne to accept, in 1962, 3rd cycle training. I therefore wanted to pay tribute to him by contributing to this volume that his colleagues and disciples offered him with an article on a dramatic author unfortunately neglected. In my capacity as Honorary President of Paris III University, I delivered his eulogy at the presentation of the work in the premises of the institute he had directed.
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884-1974), with whom I had entered into contact in 1964, was, in my eyes, one of the main playwrights of the Dada Movement as well as surrealism. I had already devoted a chapter to him in my Study on Dada and Surrealist Theater (Gallimard, 1967) and an association of his friends had been formed at the initiative of his art dealer, the Chave Gallery, in Vence. An international colloquium therefore took place at the University of Nice in November 1984, where I was invited to deal again with his theatrical work.
See:
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Theater [The Emperor of China, The Silent Canary and The Executioner of Peru], Paris, Gallimard, 1966.
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Hanouman, unpublished play presented by G. Losseroy, Mélusine, No. 34, pp. 345-366.
Jean-Pierre Begot, The Work of Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes from 1915 to 1930, Thesis, Paris III, 1972.
Homage to Georges Ribemont – Dessaignes. by ERNST Max. Chave.
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Dada, new edition established by Jean Pierre Begot, Ivréa, 1994.
Michel Corvin, "Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes: Tears of Knife, Cahiers Dada, 1966, No. 1, pp 144-191.
Gilles Losseroy; GRD novelist, thesis Nancy 2, 1995:
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes: Novelist | Theses.fr
Jeanne Brun, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes and Artistic Life (Thesis, Paris, 2006).
See on this same site:
"Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes' Absolute Symbolism", Les Mots, la vie, No. 3-4, 1986, Proceedings of the International Colloquium G. Ribemont-Dessaignes, 1984, Nice, pp. 157-176 (to be continued).