- Jacques Vaché
Jacques Vaché (
7 September 1895 -6 January 1919 ) was a friend ofAndré Breton , the founder ofsurrealism . Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind theSurrealist movement. As Breton said::"En littérature, je me suis successivement épris de Rimbaud, de Jarry, d'Apollinaire, de Nouveau, de Lautréamont, mais c'est à Jacques Vaché que je dois le plus"
:("In literature, I am successively taken with Rimbaud, with Jarry, with Apollinaire, with Nouveau, with Lautréamont, but it is Jacques Vaché to whom I owe the most")
He was born on
7 September 1895 inLorient , France, and died inNantes on6 January 1919 from an overdose ofopium . He was known for his indifference and for wearing amonocle .References
* "Lettres de guerre" - with essays by
André Breton (Au Sans Pareil, 1919)
* "Jacques Vaché" byBertrand Lacarelle (Grasset, 2005)
* "4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma & Jacques Vaché" (Anti-Classics of Dada) byJacques Rigaut ,Julien Torma , Jacques Vaché, andArthur Cravan . Roger Conover (Editor), Terry J. Hale (Editor), Paul Lenti (Editor), Iain White (Editor). (1995)Atlas Press ISBN 0947757740External links
* [http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/Lettres_de_guerre/index.htm Electronic text of "Lettres de guerre"] at the Digital Dada Library
* [http://jes.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/9/33-34/99 PDF of a English translation of "Lettres de guerre"] at Sage Journals Online
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