Prévert.
The man with the eternal cigarette.
The poet of everyday life, of the banal flat like a street sidewalk, which we rediscover sublime and burlesque.
His puns and aphorisms, his prickly proverbs and his politico-anarchist verve place him in a universe steeped in surrealism, cinema, music, childhood and bohemianism.
Prévert is not only the most studied poet in school.
It is in a much more complex bundle.
It was he who invented the famous graphic of the
“exquisite corpse”
, with his friends Yves Tanguy, future surrealist painter and draftsman, and publisher Marcel Duhamel.
The game consists of composing a sentence or a drawing together, without the words or lines depending on each other.
Example: "The little girl gets off the train and wears a floral dress after buying a croissant at the beach."
We also owe him “the Prévert-style inventory”, according to his eponymous poem, which consists in enumerating heterogeneous words and subjects, without link between them.
Example: "oysters, sun, three turkeys, a raccoon".
Here again, it is about giving free rein to your creativity.
A great friend of Picasso, Simone Signoret and Boris Vian, he was also very close to André Breton, from whom he moved away from the 1930s, tired of the authority he exercised over his followers.
"I recognized the happiness by the noise he made when he left"
,
"time makes life hard for those who want to kill him"
... We can no longer count the number of aphorisms, puns and neologisms invented by Prévert.
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