Jean Venturini

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Jean Venturini
Jean Venturini in 1939, a few months before his death
Jean Venturini in 1939, a few months before his death
BornJean-Bernard Venturini
(1919-09-17)17 September 1919
Nabeul, French Tunisia
Died17 June 1940(1940-06-17) (aged 20)
French submarine Morse, off Sfax, French Tunisia
OccupationPoet
NationalityFrench
Literary movementSurrealism

Jean Venturini (17 September 1919 – 17 June 1940) was a French poet and sailor. He died at the age of 20 during the Second World War when his submarine was lost in the Mediterranean Sea.[1]

Biography[]

Jean Venturini was born in Nabeul, Tunisia, and spent most of his childhood in Morocco. In his teens, he studied at a high school near Meknes. He began writing poetry at the age of 16, poems which were later collected and published in November 1939 as . This was to be his only published work. He was killed in June 1940, along with the entire crew of the submarine Morse, which had struck a mine. He had trained as a signaller before joining the French Navy in 1939.[2]

Outlines is a collection of poems heavily influenced by the theories of poet Arthur Rimbaud.[3] With its themes and writing, this work is very close to the surrealist aesthetic.[4]

Works[]

Book
Outlines (1939 version)
  • (in French) , collection of poems, Casablanca, Éditions du Moghreb, November 1939, 80 p.
  • (in French) Outlines : reissue with a biographical afterword on the sinking of the submarine « Morse », Paris, Vaillant, June 2009, 112 p. (ISBN 978-2-916986-06-7)
  • Scattered poems, not collected :
    • (in French) Ballade d'un qui part, published in December 1939 by the review Fontaine
    • (in French) Une Pierre dans l'eau, published in May 1940 by the review Poésie 40
    • (in French) Victime d'affiches, unpublished manuscript poem, June 1940 (sent in a letter to a close friend)

Bibliography[]

  • (in French) Pierre Seghers, Le Livre d'or de la Poésie française, first volume : « Des origines à 1940 », Paris, Marabout, 1998, 488 p. (ISBN 978-2-501026-35-2)
  • (in French) Collective work, Dictionnaire des lettres françaises, sixth volume : « Le xxe siècle », Paris, LGF-Le Livre de Poche, 1998, 1174 p. (ISBN 2-253-13109-1)
  • (in French) « La mémoire engloutie », a study by Jean-Luc Falco, foreword to the reissue of Outlines
  • (in French) Collective work, Anthologie des écrivains morts à la guerre, 1939-1945, Paris, Albin Michel, 1998, 808 p. (ISBN 9782226045126)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ See (in French) Article « Jean Venturini, marin mort pour la France et poète » by Madeleine Kérisit.
  2. ^ See (in French) Monographie de Jean Venturini, inspired by Madeleine Kérisit, on website Mémorial national aux marins morts pour la France.
  3. ^ See (in French) Pierre Seghers, Le Livre d'or de la Poésie française, first volume : « Des origines à 1940 », Paris, Marabout editor, 1998, p. 451.
  4. ^ See (in French) Collective work, Dictionnaire des lettres françaises, sixth volume : « Le xxe siècle », Paris, LGF-Le Livre de Poche, 1998, p. 1135.

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