Jehan Rictus

Portrait of Jehan Rictus byFélix Vallotton

Jehan Rictus(21 September 1867 – 6 November 1933) was a Frenchpoet.He was born Gabriel Randon inBoulogne-sur-Mer.In the 1900s, he legally changed his name to his mother's name Randon de Saint-Amand.

After an unhappy childhood and poor beginnings in the life, Gabriel Randon took the pseudonym of Jehan Rictus. He found success in 1895 with poems that he interpreted inParisiancabarets. These poems that Rictus interpreted, calledSoliloques du Pauvre(Soliloquies of the Poor), were published in 1897. A few other volumes of verse followed, withLe Coeur populairebeing published in 1914. At the time ofWorld War I,he stopped publishing. He also forsook his anarchism for nationalist opinions. He is also the author of an autobiographical novel,Fil de fer,and of a vastdiary.The first five booklets were published in 2005.

Works

• Les Soliloques du Pauvre(1897)
• Doléances(1900)
• Les Cantilènes du malheur(1902)
• Les Soliloques du Pauvre(1903)
• Fil de Fer(1906)
• Le Coeur populaire(1914)

Literatur

• Gaston Ferdière:Jehan-Rictus: son œuvre; portrait et autographe; document pour l'histoire de la littérature française,Paris: Éd. de la Nouv. Révue Critique, 1935
• René Martineau:Quelques aspects de Jehan Rictus, Paris: Messein, 1935
• Eugène Porret et Etienne Chipier:Jehan-Rictus et la mi sắc re,Couvet (Neuchâtel): Éditions de la Roulotte, 1947
• Théophile Briant:Jehan Rictus: avec un choix de textes, une bibliographie, des illustrations,Paris: Seghers, 1973
• Philippe Oriol:Jehan-Rictus: la vraie vie du poète,Dijon: Éd. Univ. de Dijon, 2015,ISBN978-2-36441-122-7

External links

• Works and documents (in French)
• Works by Jehan RictusatLibriVox(public domain audiobooks)