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Portrait de René Crevel

René Crevel

René Crevel, born August 10, 1900 in Paris 10th and died June 18, 1935 in Paris, is a French writer and poet, Dadaist then surrealist, and member of the Order of Toledo of Luis Buñuel and Federico García Lorca.


Resources

A Life, a Work: René Crevel (1900-1935) - video

René Crevel, the difficult death - video

René Crevel - The Master

René Crevel, the rebellious surrealist poet and his failed meeting with posterity - France Culture

Michel Piccoli reads "Babylone" by René Crevel at the Avignon Festival - France Culture

René Crevel, Philippe Vasset, Emmanuel Pierrat - France Culture

René Crevel or impossible death - France Inter

Tours and twists of René Crevel

Resources René Crevel — Mélusine site

Works available on Gallica


Texts by René Crevel about Jean Paulhan :


Bibliography of texts published in the NRF

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

Texts by René Crevel

  1. Minutes au ralenti, 1925-02-01

Notes by René Crevel

These texts by René Crevel may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts.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. Histoire Naturelle, par Max Ernst (Jeanne Bucher), 1927-10-01, Notes : les arts

Texts about René Crevel

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. René Crevel, by Marcel Jouhandeau, 1935-07-01, articles
  2. Sur la mort de René Crevel, by André Breton, 1935-08-01, Correspondance

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.