Alain Bosquet
Encyclopedia
Alain Bosquet, born Anatole Bisk (March 28, 1919 Odessa
, Ukraine
– 8 March 1998 Paris
), was a French poet
.
, then at the Sorbonne
.
Mobilized in 1940, he fought in the Belgian army, then in the French army.
In 1942, he fled with his family to Manhattan
, where he helped edit the Free French magazine Voix de France.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, and received U.S. Citizenship. He met his wife, Norma Caplan, in Berlin
.
He was Special Adviser to the mission on behalf of the Allied Control Council
Quadripartite Council of Berlin from 1945 to 1951.
In 1947, with Alexander Koval and Edouard Roditi founded the German-language literary review, Das Lot ("The Sounding Line"), six numbers from October, 1947 until Juni, 1952, with publisher Karl Heinz Henssel in Berlin.
In 1958, he taught French literature at Brandeis University
, then American literature at the University of Lyon
from 1959 to 1960.
He worked as a freelance critic for Combat, Le Monde, and Le Figaro.
He became a French citizen in 1980.
He headed the jury of the Max Jacob Prize, the Académie Mallarmé
and was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
– 8 March 1998 Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
), was a French poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
.
Life
In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université Libre de BruxellesUniversité Libre de Bruxelles
The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.-Name:...
, then at the Sorbonne
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
.
Mobilized in 1940, he fought in the Belgian army, then in the French army.
In 1942, he fled with his family to Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, where he helped edit the Free French magazine Voix de France.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, and received U.S. Citizenship. He met his wife, Norma Caplan, in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
.
He was Special Adviser to the mission on behalf of the Allied Control Council
Allied Control Council
The Allied Control Council or Allied Control Authority, known in the German language as the Alliierter Kontrollrat and also referred to as the Four Powers , was a military occupation governing body of the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany after the end of World War II in Europe...
Quadripartite Council of Berlin from 1945 to 1951.
In 1947, with Alexander Koval and Edouard Roditi founded the German-language literary review, Das Lot ("The Sounding Line"), six numbers from October, 1947 until Juni, 1952, with publisher Karl Heinz Henssel in Berlin.
In 1958, he taught French literature at Brandeis University
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
, then American literature at the University of Lyon
University of Lyon
The University of Lyon , located in Lyon and Saint Etienne, France, is a center for higher education and research comprising 16 institutions of higher education...
from 1959 to 1960.
He worked as a freelance critic for Combat, Le Monde, and Le Figaro.
He became a French citizen in 1980.
He headed the jury of the Max Jacob Prize, the Académie Mallarmé
Académie Mallarmé
The Académie Mallarmé is a French literary academy of writers and poets, founded in 1937. Since 1976, the Académie has awarded the Prix Mallarmé literary prize at the Brive book fair....
and was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Awards
- 1968 Prix de poésie le Metais-Larivière (by the Académie françaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
) - 1986 Prix Chateaubriand
- 1989 Prix GoncourtPrix GoncourtThe Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...
de la poésie - 1991 Grand prix de la poésie de la ville de Paris
- 1992 Prix de la langue de France
- Officier of the légion d’honneur
- Bronze Star MedalBronze Star MedalThe Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military decoration that may be awarded for bravery, acts of merit, or meritorious service. As a medal it is awarded for merit, and with the "V" for valor device it is awarded for heroism. It is the fourth-highest combat award of the...
Poetry
- Les mois de l'année
- La vie est clandestine 1945
- A la mémoire de ma planète 1948
- Langue morte 1951
- Quel royaume oublié 1955
- Premier testament 1957, Prix Saint-Beuve
- Deuxième testament 1959, Prix Max Jacob
- Maître objet 1962
- Quatre testaments et autres poèmes 1967
- 100 notes pour une solitude 1969
- Notes pour un amour 1972
- Penser contre soi 1973
- Notes pour un pluriel 1974
- Livre du doute et de la grâce 1977
- Vingt et une nature morte ou mourantes 1978
- Poème un 1979
- Les enfants 1980
- Raconte-moi le passé... 1980
- Sonnets pour une fin de siècle 1981
- Poème deux 1981
- Un jour après la vie 1984
- L’autre origine 1984
- Le tourment de Dieu 1987, Prix Chateaubriand
- Bourreaux et acrobates, poèmes sans chauffeur 1990
- Le gardien des rosées 1991
- Effacez moi ce visage 1991
- Capitaine de l’absurde 1991
- Demain sans moi 1994
- La fable et le fouet 1995
- Mer
- Les mots sont des êtres
- La trompe de l'éléphant
- Un enfant m'a dit...
Essays
- Saint-John Perse
- Pierre Emmanuel
- Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickinson
- Robert Sabatier
- Lawrence Durrell
- Conrad Aixen
- Carl Sanburg
- Anthologie de la poésie américaine 1956
- 35 jeunes poètes américains 1961
- Verbe et vertige 1962
- Les 20 Meilleurs Nouvelles Françaises (1964) Ed. Gérard et C°, Coll. " Bibliothèque Marabout Géant " n° 192.
- Les 20 Meilleurs Nouvelles Russes (1964) Ed. Gérard et C°, Coll. " Bibliothèque Marabout Géant " n° 202.
- Middle West 1967
- Un atlas des voyages 1967
- Injustice 1969
- Les Poèmes de l'année, Alain Bosquet, Pierre Seghers, eds, Seghers., 1968
- Roger Caillois 1971
- En compagnie de Marcel Arland 1973
- Pas d’accord Soljénitsyne 1974
- La poésie française depuis 1950 , une anthologie 1979
- La poésie francophone de Belgique 1987
- La mémoire ou l’oubli 1990
- Marlène Dietrich, une amour par téléphone 1992
- La Russie en lambeaux 1991
- Van Vogh 1980
Novels
- La Grande Éclipse 1952
- Ni singe ni Dieu 1953
- Le mécréant 1960
- Un besoin de malheur 1963
- La Confession mexicaine 1965
- Les tigres de papier 1968
- L’amour à deux têtes 1970
- Chicago, oignon sauvage 1971
- Monsieur Vaudeville 1973
- L’amour bourgeois 1974
- Les bonnes intentions 1975
- Une mère russe 1978
- Jean-louis Trabart, médecin 1980
- L’enfant que tu étais 1982
- Ni guerre, ni paix 1983
- Les Petites éternités 1984
- Les fêtes cruelles 1984
- Lettre à mon père qui aurait eu 100 ans 1987
- Claudette comme tout le monde 1991
- Les solitudes 1992
Stories
- Georges et Arnold, Arnold et Georges 1995
- Marlène Dietrich, Un amour par téléphone, Paris, La Différence, 1992, rééd. coll. "Minos", 2002.
Non-fiction
- Un homme pour un autre 1985
- Le métier d’otage 1989
- Comme un refus de la planète 1989