Jean Lescure
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During the Occupation Lescure resumed editing "Messages" in 1942, printed in Brussels
Brussels
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, Raymond Queneau
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, Michel Leiris
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, Gaston Bachelard
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, Georges Bataille
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, Jean Paulhan, Guillevic, André Frénaud. "Domaine français" (Messages 1943) was printed in Geneva
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, Gaston Bachelard, Albert Camus
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Jean Lescure became co-director of the clandestine review "Les Lettres françaises" and was one of the founders of the underground organization, the "Comité National des Ecrivains". After the Liberation he was appointed director of the French Radio. He was an early member of Oulipo
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Lescure translated Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" (1949) and the complete works of Giuseppe Ungaretti
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(1953). He wrote introductions to the work of many French artists (Bertholle
Jean Bertholle
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, Chastel, Estève, Gischia, Lapicque, Pignon, Prassinos, Singier
Gustave Singier
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, Ubac
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...) and essays on the philosopher Gaston Bachelard and André Malraux
André Malraux
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Poems
- Le Voyage immobile, Jean Flory, Paris, 1936.
- Une anatomie du secret, Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel et Paris, 1946.
- Les Falaises de Taormina, Np., Limoges, 1949.
- La Plaie ne se ferme pas, Charlot, Paris, 1949.
- Treize poèmes, Gallimard, Paris, 1960.
- Noires compagnes de mes murs, Florentin Mouret, Avignon, 1961.
- Drailles, Gallimard, Paris, 1968.
- Itinéraires de la nuit, Clancier-Guénaud, Paris, 1982.
- Il Trionfo della morte, Clancier-Guénaud, Paris, 1984.
- La Belle Jardinière, Clancier-Guénaud, Paris, 1988.
- Le Satyre est con, Editions Proverbe, Marchainville, 1998.
- Gnomides, Editions Proverbe, Marchainville, 1999.
- Journal de la Boue, Editions Proverbe, Marchainville, 2001.
- Feuilles de tremble, Editions Proverbe, Marchainville, 2001.
- Poèmes métaphysiques (1938–1946), Editions Proverbe, Marchainville, 2002.
Essays
- Exercice de la pureté, Messages 1942, III, Paris, 1942.
- Charles Lapicque, Flammarion, Paris, 1956.
- Dessins de Charles Lapicque, La mer, Editions Galanis, Paris, 1964.
- Images d’images, Editions Galanis, Paris, 1964.
- D’une obscure clarté, Jean BertholleJean BertholleJean Bertholle was a French painter of the new Paris School....
, Villand et Galanis, Paris, 1966. - Un été avec Bachelard, Luneau Ascot éditeurs, Paris, 1983.
- Album Malraux, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Gallimard, Paris, 1986.
- Bachelard aujourd'hui, présenté par Jean Lescure, Clancier-Guénaud, Paris, 1986.
- Gischia ou les raisons de la couleur, Éditions de l'Orycte, Paris, 1987.
- Gustave Singier, Canicule à Patmos, Guitardes et Galerie Arnoux, Paris, 1988.
- Le Même est toujours un autre, Georges Dayez, Editions Jean-Pierre Joubert, Paris, 1991.
- Poésie et Liberté, Histoire de "Messages", 1939-1946, Editions de l’IMEC, Paris, 1998.
- En écoutant FautrierJean FautrierJean Fautrier was a French painter and sculptor. He was one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme.He was born in Paris. Given his unwed mother's surname, he was raised by his grandmother until her death in 1908, when he went to live with his mother in London.In 1912 he studied at the...
, L'Echoppe, Paris, 1998. - Benjamin Fondane, Le gouffre et le mur, Editions Proverbe, Marchainville, 1999.
- Léon Gischia, Sketchbook, Editions Proverbe, Marchainville, 2000.
- André Malraux, Pour une antibiographie, Éditions de l'Orycte, Paris, 2004.
- Mario Prassinos, Éditions de l'Orycte, hors commerce, Paris, 2005.
Sources
- Jean Lescure, Poésie et Liberté, Histoire de "Messages", 1939-1946, Editions de l'Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaineImecImec is a micro- and nanoelectronics research center headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, with offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China and Japan. Its staff of about 1,900 people includes more than 500 industrial residents and guest researchers...
(IMEC), Paris, 1998. - Michel-Georges Bernard, Jean Lescure, "Dictionnaire de Poésie de Baudelaire à nos jours", Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2001.
- Michel-Georges Bernard, Jean Lescure ou Les matins de la parole, "Poésie/première", n° 29, Editions Editinter, Soisy-sur-Seine, juillet-octobre 2004.