Jacques Prevel

Jacques Marie Prevel (July 27, 1915 in Bolbec – May 27, 1951 in Sainte-Feyre) was a French poet. His real first name was Jacques, but he added 'Marie' not to be mistaken with Jacques Prévert, whose surname is pronounced in a very similar way. During the German occupation he lived in the famous Parisiene district Saint-Germain-des-Près.

Among his friends were the members of the Le Grand Jeu movement, René Daumal and Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, and also Antonin Artaud. Prevel considered Artaud his master, but Artaud admired Prevel's writings as well - he wrote about him (often "more portraying himself" ) and dictated his visions to him. Prevel also supplied Artaud with laudanum and opium. Prevel died of tuberculosis in the Sainte-Peyre hospital in the arms of his second love Jany.

Poetry
"It will be essential to work until the end of times, to find again the Gesture and the Word.".


 * Poèmes mortels (1945); Mortal poems
 * Poèmes pour toute mémoire (1947); Poems for all the memory
 * De colère et de haine (1950); From rage and hatred
 * En dérive vers l’absolu (1952); On the crossroad to the absolute, posthumously

Diary

 * En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud (1974); In the company of Antonin Artaud, posthumously