Prévert, Jacques

Prévert, Jacques

▪ French poet

born Feb. 4, 1900, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Fr.
died April 11, 1977, Omonville-la-Petite
 French poet who composed ballads of social hope and sentimental love; he also ranked among the foremost of screenwriters, especially during the 1930s and '40s.

      From 1925 to 1929 Prévert was associated with the Surrealists Robert Desnos, Yves Tanguy, Louis Aragon, and André Breton and renewed, in their style, the ancient tradition of oral poetry that led him to a highly popular form of “song poems,” which were collected in Paroles (1945; “Words”). Many were put to music by Josef Kosma and reached a vast audience of young people who liked Prévert's anticlerical, anarchistic, iconoclastic tones, crackling with humour. He lashed out at stupidity, hypocrisy, and war, and he sang of lovers in the street and the metro and of simple hearts and children. Most popular is his Tentative de description d'un dîner de têtes à Paris-France (1931; “Attempt at a Description of a Masked Dinner at Paris, France”).

      Prévert mastered the art of the small sketch that catches the reader off guard. He used free verse, irregular verse, occasional rhymes, puns, cascades of words intentionally in disarray, enumerations, antithesis, and other devices.

      He also wrote for a group of politically militant dramatists with whom he eventually visited the Soviet Union (1933). Prévert wrote many excellent film scripts. His best ones, made for the director Marcel Carné (Carné, Marcel), are Drôle de drame (1937; “Odd Drama”), Les Visiteurs du soir (1942; “The Visitors of the Evening”), and Les Enfants du paradis (1944; “The Children of Paradise”). Collections of his poems include Histoires (1946; “Stories”), Spectacle (1951), Grand bal du printemps (1951; “Grand Ball of Spring”), Charmes de Londres (1952; “Charms of London”), Histoires et d'autres histoires (1963; “Stories and Other Stories”), and Choses et autres (1972; “Things and Other Things”).

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