Marcel Martinet
Marcel Martinet (Dijon, 22 August 1887 – Saumur, 18 February 1944) was a French pacifist socialist revolutionary militant and a prolétarian writer.
Marcel Martinet
- Born
- 1887 · Dijon.
- Died
- 1944 · Saumur.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- writer · playwright · poet · novelist
- Movements
- proletarian literature
- Education
- École Normale Supérieure
- Languages
- French
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Marcel Martinet (Dijon, 22 August 1887 – Saumur, 18 February 1944) was a French pacifist socialist revolutionary militant and a prolétarian writer.
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Martinet, a Communist and pacifist, opposed the First World War from its outset: his antiwar poems Les temps maudits were banned in France during the war, but circulated secretly: helped by Marguerite Rosmer, he sent copies on thin paper to soldiers at the front. La Maison à l'Abri, a novel about the First World War, was runner-up for the Prix Goncourt in 1919. Martinet's poem La Nuit, completed in 1919, was published in 1922 with a preface by Leon Trotsky, whom Martinet had befriended when Trotsky was in Paris. Martinet's series Les Cahiers du Travail [Labour Notebooks] published pamphlets by Victor Serge. His son was the surgeon Jean-Daniel Martinet.
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• Les temps maudits; poèmes, 1914-1918, 1918 • La Maison à l'Abri • Culture prolétarienne, 1935 • Correspondance croiseé: 1932-1944, Bassac: Plein Chant, 1987.
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- 1.Ian Birchall, 'Introduction', Victor Serge, Revolution In Danger, Haymarket Books, 2011, p. 4
- 2.Michael Rosen, Europe's charnel house (review of George Paizis, Marcel Martinet: poet of the revolution), The Guardian, 2 February 2008
- 3.Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas Kellner, Passion and rebellion: the expressionist heritage, Taylor & Francis, 1983, p. 119
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- George Paizis, Marcel Martinet: poet of the revolution, London: Francis Boutle, 2007
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