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Portrait de Jacques Audiberti

Jacques Audiberti

There are poets whose ambition is to know life; they use what is most indestructible in language: the most worn words, the common nouns reduced to their root.
Other poets claim to recreate the world, to make it more real than nature, offering it to us as a solid external object. They are looking for the the least used, most personal words.
Audiberti has no such worries: he struggles with words who come to him in too many numbers. He thinks that by reducing them, handle and rework them, he will let them take on a meaning that they possess without knowing it. He tries them, he feels them, he risks them. What does he find at the end so much effort? It's a kind of golden language, a language made of proverbs and maxims, which resembles a rite even more than everyday language. A language that sings while dancing, which in turn has wings and big shoes. Which makes one think, in its best moments, of Rutebeuf and Villon.

Jean Paulhan, 1966

Resources

Images by Jacques Audiberti

Images by Jacques Audiberti - Getty

A century of writers - Jacques Audiberti - video

Souvenir portrait - RTF, 1966 - video

with a few words from Jean Paulhan and André Pieyre de Mandiargues

The Jacques Audiberti Special Night with Marie-Louise Audiberti - France Culture 2015

Domaine of the mind - Jacques Audiberti - RTF 1954

Interviews with Jacques Audiberti: 1- The writer, 2- Novel and poetry 1963

Interviews with Jacques Audiberti - Theater or not? 1963

New dramatic repertoire - Le mal court

Carte blanche to Jacques Audiberti: Les Femmes du Boeuf 1947

Association of Friends of Jacques Audiberti

Jacques Audiberti - FranceArchives

Jacques Audiberti resources - André Breton site

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Correspondance : Jacques Audiberti à Jean Paulhan, 1933-1965

Bibliography of texts published in the NRF

The texts below, published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, are grouped into four main sets: texts by Jacques Audiberti, notes and columns by the author, texts about the author, and, when available, translations by the author.

Texts by Jacques Audiberti

  1. Le plus authentique, 1933-10-01
  2. Curieuses et cuirassier, 1935-01-01
  3. Contribution à l'énigme, 1935-06-01
  4. V. H., 1935-07-01
  5. Trois poèmes, 1936-06-01
  6. L'autre David, 1937-09-01
  7. Latvia, 1938-08-01
  8. Vigilance, 1939-10-01
  9. Prison, 1940-12-01
  10. L'Homme et la Maison, 1941-04-01
  11. La Rope – La Plainte de l'Homme, 1941-10-01
  12. La Maison de l'Estuaire, 1942-03-01
  13. La commerçante de Loche, 1942-06-01
  14. La mer, 1942-11-01
  15. M -, 1953-10-02
  16. Les Frères inférieurs, 1954-05-01
  17. La Poupée (I), 1956-03-01
  18. La Poupée (II), 1956-04-01
  19. La Poupée (Fin), 1956-05-01
  20. Rex Bitur, 1957-01-01
  21. Lagune hérissée, 1958-11-01
  22. Le Poète, 1959-06-01
  23. Rouge, 1960-12-01
  24. Petits ennuis, 1961-12-01
  25. La Guérite, 1963-12-01
  26. La Guillotine, 1964-10-01
  27. La Guillotine (Fin), 1964-11-01
  28. Dimanche m'attend, 1965-05-01

Notes by Jacques Audiberti

These texts by Jacques Audiberti may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts. They appeared in NRF sections such as Chronique des romans, L'air du mois, Le temps comme il passe, etc., or in tribute issues.

  1. Chant du dragon, 1940-02-01, L'air du mois
  2. La Maison de l'Estuaire, 1942-03-01, Document] De la Naissance Éternelle MAÎTRE ECKHART Traduit de l'allemand par Paul Petit
  3. Folies-Bergère, 1957-04-01, Chroniques : le cinéma
  4. Le Laps d'Arsène Lupin, 1957-07-01, Chroniques : le cinéma
  5. Le Maximum, 1958-02-01, Chroniques
  6. La Surpopulation..., 1958-04-01, Le temps, comme il passe
  7. Bellone, 1962-12-01, Le temps, comme il passe
  8. Le dernier poème, 1965-12-01, Textes inédits

Texts about Jacques Audiberti

These texts may include thematic studies about the author, correspondence, reading notes on works by or about the author, interviews conducted by the author, or works edited by the author.

  1. Les Jardins et les Fleuves, par Jacques Audiberti (Gallimard), by Jean Duvignaud, 1954-06-01, Notes : le roman
  2. La Hobereaute, de Jacques Audiberti, by Jacques Lemarchand, 1958-11-01, Chroniques : le théâtre
  3. Infanticide préconisé, par Jacques Audiberti (Gallimard), by Roger Judrin, 1958-11-01, Notes : le roman
  4. L'Effet Glapion, de Jacques Audiberti, by Dominique Fernandez, 1959-12-01, Notes : les spectacles

Chronological distribution of texts published in the NRF (1908-1968)

This chart shows the chronological distribution of texts across the four categories defined above: Texts, Notes, Translations, and Texts about the author.

Bibliography of texts published in the journal Mesures

The texts below, published in the journal Mesures, are grouped into two sets: texts by Jacques Audiberti and texts translated by the author.

Texts by Jacques Audiberti

  1. La mort de Cléopâtre, 15 janvier 1936 [206 p.]
  2. L’Ampélour, 15 juillet 1937 [ p.]
  3. Dieu, la femme, 15 janvier 1940 [176 p.]

Bibliography of texts published in Les Cahiers de la Pleiade

The texts below, published in Les Cahiers de la Pleiade, are grouped into three sets: texts by Jacques Audiberti, texts translated by the author, and texts about the author.

Texts by Jacques Audiberti

  1. Mer, avril 1947 [292 p.]