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Joseph Delteil

ジョゼフ・ドゥルテイ

Joseph Delteil

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1894-04-20 (Villar-en-Val, Aude, France)
Died
1978-04-16 (Grabels, Hérault, France) age 83
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Pieusse (native village) → Limoux → Carcassonne → Grabels

Career

Occupations
Writer, Poet
Active Years
1919-1978
Influenced By
Louis Aragon, Andre Breton
Influenced
Henry Miller, Frédéric Jacques Temple

Education

Saint-Louis school in Limoux
General education
Degree: Certificat d'études primaires
Period: 1907まで
Year of Graduation: 1907
Country: France
Obtained Certificat d'études primaires
Collège Saint-Stanislas in Carcassonne
Small seminary
Country: France
Attended as a student

Awards

Prix Femina
1925
Work: Jeanne d'Arc
Organization: Prix Femina jury
Result: winner
Grand Prix international de littérature gastronomique
1965
Work: La Cuisine paléolithique
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Jeanne d'Arc

1925 Novel

Anti-conformist novel about Joan of Arc, winner of Prix Femina.

Joan of ArcMysticismRebellion

La Deltheillerie

1968 Memoir

1968 publication that regained notoriety.

MemoriesLiterary life

Sur le Fleuve Amour

1922 Novel

First novel that attracted Surrealists' attention.

LoveAdventure

Bibliography

  • Le Cœur grec (1919)
  • Le Cygne androgyne (1921)
  • Sur le Fleuve Amour (1922)
  • Choléra (1923)
  • Les Cinq sens (1924)
  • Jeanne d'Arc (1925)
  • Le Discours aux oiseaux par Saint François d'Assise (1925)
  • Les Poilus (1925)
  • Mes amours...(...spirituelles) (1926)
  • Allo ! Paris (1926)
  • Ode à Limoux (1926)
  • Perpignan (1927)
  • La Jonque de porcelaine (1927)
  • La Fayette (1928)
  • Le Mal de cœur (1928)
  • De J.-J. Rousseau à Mistral (1928)
  • Il était une fois Napoléon (1929)
  • Les Chats de Paris (1929)
  • La Belle Corisande (1930)
  • La Belle Aude (1930)
  • Don Juan (1930)
  • La Nuit des bêtes (1931)
  • Le Vert Galant (1931)
  • A la Belle étoile (1944)
  • Jésus II (1947)
  • François d'Assise (1960)
  • Œuvres complètes (1961)
  • La Cuisine paléolithique (1964)
  • La Deltheillerie (1968)
  • Le sacré corps (1976)
  • Correspondance privée Henry Miller-Joseph Delteil (1980)
  • Musée de marine (1990)
  • Les Prisonniers de l'infini (1994)
  • Le Maître ironique (1995)
  • L'Homme coupé en morceaux (2005)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
LyricalVitalistRegionalist
Recurring Motifs
Homeland landscapesOccitan cultureNature

Health

  • Serious illness
    1931年
    Left literature and Parisian life for southern France

Legacy

20th-century French writer and poet. Involved in early Surrealism, Prix Femina winner. Later lived a peasant life in southern France, friends with many notables. Buried in Pieusse.

Archives

  • josephdelteil.net

In Popular Culture

  • Inscription on house in Pieusse

Trivia

  • Called Pieusse his 'native village'.
  • Wife was Caroline Dudley, creator of Revue nègre.
  • Excommunicated by Breton after leaving Surrealists.