Roger Gilbert-Lecomte

Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (May 18, 1907 in Reims, France - December 31, 1943 in Paris) was a French avant-garde poet and co-founder (with René Daumal, Roger Vailland and Josef Šíma) of the artistic group and magazine Le Grand Jeu. The group, associated with surrealists, was "excommunicated" from the movement by André Breton. Gilbert-Lecomte used drugs, in particular morphine, for both artistic and sociological reasons. As was predicted in his poetry, the writers death was the result of an infection caused from dirty hypodermic needles.

Bibliography

• Le grand jeu (nos 1, 2, et 3)
• Testament (1955)
• Sacre et massacre de l'amour (1960)
• Tétanos mystique (1972)
• Lettres à Benjamin Fondane (1985)
• Monsieur Morphée empoisonneur public (1966)
• Corrrespondance (1971)
• Arthur Rimbaud (1971)
• L'horrible révélation… la seule (1973)
• Œuvres complètes, 2 volumes (1974-1977)
• Caves en plein ciel (1977)
• Neuf haï kaï (1977)
• Poèmes et chroniques retrouvés (1982)
• Mes chers petits éternels (1992)
• La vie, l'amour, la mort, le vide et le vent
• Joseph Sima (2000)
• Le miroir noir
• Black Mirror: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (Station Hill Press, 1991)

External links

• Voir sa sépulture, in French
• ROGERGILBERTLECOMTE.COM, includes poems, as well as translations, biography, and photographs.