TWO CLOSE POETS IN SURREALISM: THÉRÈSE PLANTIER AND MARIE-CHRISTINE BRIÈRE
par Françoise ArmengaudFrançoise Py
January 30, 2021
Presentation by Françoise Armengaud and Françoise Py
Novelist, poet, essayist, pamphleteer, Thérèse Plantier (1911-1990) was at the same time a teacher for "maladjusted" children and the owner of a campsite in Provence while having successively married four or five husbands. She had many friends, male and female. Let us cite among others: Simone de Beauvoir, Violette Leduc, André Breton, the poets Anne Teyssiéras, Jocelyne Curtil, Marie-Christine Brière, her publishers – themselves poets – Guy Chambelland, Jean Breton, the journalists Jean-Claude Arrougé, Carlo Jansiti. What did she write? Novels: the best known Qouiza, Hubert Laporte, 1988. Essays: The Discourse of the Male. Logos spermaticos, Anthropos, 1980. Provence, My Hatred, Christian Pirot, 1983. Poetry collections: Water Paths, Chambelland, 1963. It's Me Diego, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1971. Until Hell Freezes, Pierre-Jean Oswald, 1974. The Portentule, followed by Inferior Memoirs, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1978. Omerta. The Law of Silence, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1975. Seeds of Death, Le Pont de l'épée, 1986. I Don't Regret Father Ubu, Chambelland, 1988.
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