Charles Vildrac
Illustration — Charles Vildrac and his wife in 1926 Charles Vildrac (November 22, 1882 – June 25, 1971), born "Charles Messager", was a French libertarian playwright, poet and author of what some consider the first modern children's novel, L'Île rose (1924). In 1901 he published Le Verlibrisme, a defense of traditional verse. In 1912 he published a collection of prose poems.
Charles Vildrac
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- Full name
- Charles Eugène Messager.
- Born
- 1882. · Paris.
- Died
- 1971. · Saint-Tropez.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- poet, playwright, writer, pedagogue and gallerist.
- Known for
- L'Indigent.
- Honours
- Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française and Prix Toirac.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Charles Vildrac and his wife in 1926 Charles Vildrac (November 22, 1882 – June 25, 1971), born "Charles Messager", was a French libertarian playwright, poet and author of what some consider the first modern children's novel, L'Île rose (1924). In 1901 he published Le Verlibrisme, a defense of traditional verse. In 1912 he published a collection of prose poems.
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He was a member of the Abbaye de Créteil which he founded with Georges Duhamel. He died in Saint-Tropez. The Prix de poésie Charles Vildrac is named for him.
• Poèmes (1905) • Images et mirages (1907), poems • Livre d'amour (1910), poems • Notes sur la technique poétique (1910), Notes on Poetic Technique, with Georges Duhamel • Chants du désespéré (1914–20) (1920), Songs of a Desperate Man, poems • Découverte (1912), récit novel • Chants du désespéré (1920), poems • Le Paquebot Tenacity (1920; lit. S.S. Tenacity), theatre play • L'Indigent (1920), theatre play • Michel Auclair (1921) • L'Île rose (1924), children's novel, lit. The Pink Island, translated as Rose Island • Poèmes de l'Abbaye (1925), poems • Madame Béliard (1925), theatre play • Prolongement (1927), poems • D’un voyage au Japon (1927), travel story • La Brouille (1930), The Misunderstanding, theatre play • La Colonie (1930), children's novel (sequel to L'Île rose) • Les Lunettes du lion (1932), children's tale • La famille Moineau (1932), children's tale • Le Jardinier de Samos (1932), theatre play • Milot (1933), children's tale • Bridinette (1935), children's tale • Poucette (1936), theatre play • L'œuvre peinte d'Eugène Dabit (1937), monographie • Russie neuve (1938), travel story • L'Air du temps (1938), theatre play • Trois mois de prison (1942) • L'Honneur des poètes (1943), volume of poems published by the French Resistance; Vildrac's contribution appears under the pseudonym Robert Barade • Lazare (1945), in Chroniques de Minuit, Les Éditions de Minuit, p. 15-39 • Les Pères ennemis (1946), The Enemy Fathers, theatre play • D'après l'écho (1949) • Amadou le Bouquillon (1951), children's tale • Les Jouets du Père Noël (1952), The Toys of Father Christmas • Pages de journal (1968)
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1882
Charles Vildrac born at Paris.
1971
Charles Vildrac died at Saint-Tropez.
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- 1.Gilbert Meynier, Les anarchistes français et la guerre d'Algérie, Université Nancy 2, 2010, page 5.
- 2.Plaque commémorative apposée sur l'immeuble du 22, rue Berthollet.
- 3.Georges Duhamel, Biographie de mes fantômes, éditions Paul Hartmann, 1944, .
- 4.Galerie Vildrac, sur Transatlantic encounters, en ligne.
- 5.Entretien entre Vildrac et Roger Valbelle, in: Excelsior, Paris, samedi 8 janvier 1921, — sur Gallica.
- 6.Nicole Racine, Notice « Charles Vildrac », Le Maitron, consulté le 14 juillet 2020.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Jean Rousselot, Dictionnaire de la Poésie française contemporaine, éditions Larousse, 1968.
- Nicole Racine, notice « Charles Vildrac », in Jacques Julliard & Michel Winock, Dictionnaire des intellectuels français, éditions du Seuil, 1996.
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