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He remained active in the surrealist movement through the early 1930s but distanced himself gradually from the mid-1930s onward. Throughout his career, Char's work appeared in various editions, often with artwork by notable figures, including Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque, Miró, Matisse and Vieira da Silva .
Learn about René Char, a French poet who participated in the surrealist movement and the Resistance during World War II. Explore his poetry collections, collaborations, and translations.
Jun 10, 2024 · René Char (born June 14, 1907, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Fr.—died Feb. 19, 1988, Paris) was a French poet who began as a Surrealist but who, after his experiences as a Resistance leader in World War II, wrote economical verse with moralistic overtones.
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René Émile Char est le benjamin des quatre enfants issus des secondes noces, en 1888, de Joseph Emile Magne Char (1863-1918), négociant né à L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, et de Marie-Thérèse Armande Rouget (1869-1951), sœur de sa première épouse, Julia Rouget, morte en 1886 de tuberculose un an après leur mariage. À la naissance de René ...
René Char - René-Émile Char was born on June 14, 1907, in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, a town in the Provence region of France, to Émile Char and Marie-Thérèse (née Rouget). Char was the youngest of four children born to the couple.
69 quotes from René Char: 'I believe in the magic and authority of words.', 'Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun.', and 'Eternity is not much longer than life.'.
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Jun 6, 2023 · Students in “Poetry and War” studied the French poet René Char, who wrote poetry and led guerrilla units against Nazi occupation in WWII. They visited his archives, met his widow, and translated his work in multiple languages.
