The collection mentioned below indicates that it reproduces in full the proceedings of the colloquium on Jacques Prévert which was held at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle under the direction of Carole Aurouet, Daniel Compère, and the tireless animators of research on the poet that are Danièle Gasiglia-Laster and Arnaud Laster. For my part, I brought the support of the Surrealism Research Center and its logistics. Having already dealt with his libertarian culture (cf. Libertarian Culture, Europe n° 799-800 (melusine-surrealisme.fr)) and to avoid repeating myself, I examined the way in which Prévert put surrealism in the street, in all its dimensions. As we know, the most important thing in such colloquia are the meetings with our foreign colleagues, and the pleasure of finding in Paris the specialists of our poetry.

Jacques Prévert, "erased frontiers", texts presented and gathered by Carole Aurouet, Daniel Compère, Danièle Gasiglia-Laster and Arnaud Laster. (Proceedings of the Prévert Colloquium, December 2000, University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle) L'Age d'Homme Editions, Mélusine Library Collection, 2003, 216 p. Saluted by Breton for his contribution to surrealism, held by Queneau for a "master", admired by Georges Bataille and Henri Michaux, Jacques Prévert continues to please those he would have loved and to exasperate those he would have hated. Indifferent to hierarchies. Capable of being interested in Proust as in Eugène Sue. Of passing from "the eternal child" to "a rare bird" and of giving the leading role to the unemployed rather than to the millionaire. Of composing his images from the most precious elements as from the most common. Artist of verse, without seeming to be, even when songs make us forget the lyricist. Lover of love, enemy of wars. Modest and tender but without fig leaf. Ardent defender of life but peppering his scenarios with suicides. Here he is in all his dimensions and even the others: in books, collages, films. Seen from Germany, Canada, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, "Erased Frontiers".

Contents: Prévert surrealist of the street, by Henri Béhar. Michaux and Prévert, by Pierre Vilar. The German sources of the scenario of A Rare Bird, by Cordula Mücke. Suicide in Jacques Prévert's scenarios, by Carole Aurouet. Prévert-Queneau, Stories and words of Fatal Instant, by Daniel Delbreil. The verse in Words, by Michel Collot. Bataille reader of Prévert, by Marie-Christine Lala. Sexuality in Prévert's non-cinematographic texts, by Jacky Chareyre. Jacques Prévert reader of popular novels, by Daniel Compère. Prévert reader of Proust, by Danièle Gasiglia-Laster. Medieval sources in Prévert's collages, by Anne Lemonnier. Collages and photographs: complementarities and tensions of the prévertian imaginary, by Michaël Bishop. Translating Prévert, by Radivoje Konstantinovic. The reception of Prévert in Luxembourg, by Frank Wilhelm The reception of Prévert in Yugoslavia, by Jelena Novakovic. The press reception of Jacques Prévert's Complete Works in the Pléiade Library, by Arnaud Laster.

Download my contribution PDF: "Prévert surrealist of the street". Text reproduced in Henri Béhar, The Lost Children. Essay on the avant-garde, Lausanne, L'Age d'Homme Editions, Mélusine Library, 2002, pp. 82-98.

See on this same site: Surrealist Paris

Read: Guide to Surrealist Paris (2012) and notably the Prévert route written by Danièle Gasiglia-Laster