The Cahiers du Sud

The Cahiers du Sud was a French literary magazine based in Marseilles . It was founded by Jean Ballard in 1925 and published until 1966. [1] [2]

History and profile

Ballard founded Les Cahiers du Sud as a continuation of the Marseilles Fortunio , founded in 1914 by Marcel Pagnol . Through the poet André Gaillard (1898-1929), the magazine published surrealist writers like René Crevel , Paul Éluard and Benjamin Péret , and former surrealists like Antonin Artaud , Robert Desnos . Others published in the magazine Henri Michaux , Michel Leiris , René Daumal , Pierre Jean Jouve and Pierre Reverdy .Cahiers du Sud also published the poetry of Joë Bousquet . [3] Other contributors included Gabriel Audisio , René Nelli , Simone Weil , Marguerite Yourcenar , Walter Benjamin and Paul Valery . [4]

In 1945 Ballard drew up a new editorial board with Jean Tortel and Pierre Guerre . [3]

References

  1. Jump up^ Jean Ballard, a life for Cahiers du Sud. Retrieved 23 April 2012
  2. Jump up^ Brun-Franc, Christel (2015). “Jean Ballard, a figure of the” intellectual worker “” . Mediterranean shores . 1 (50) . Retrieved March 30, 2016 – via Cairn.info . (Registration required ( help )) .
  3. ^ Jump up to:b Alain Paire, Chronicle of Cahiers du Sud, 1914-1966 , 1993
  4. Jump up^ Luisa Passerini,The Liquid Europe of the Southern Notebooks . Retrieved 23 April 2012

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