Cayrol, Jean

Cayrol, Jean

▪ French author
in full  Jean-Raphaël-Marie-Noël Cayrol 
born June 6, 1911, Bordeaux, France
died February 10, 2005, Bordeaux

      French poet, novelist, and essayist, who stood at the frontiers of the New Novel (nouveau roman (New Novel)), the avant-garde French novel that emerged in the 1950s.

      In World War II Cayrol was deported to a concentration camp after participating in the French Resistance, and that experience is at the heart of his artistic creation. The suffering he underwent at Mauthausen inspired his best-known volume of poems, Poèmes de la nuit et du brouillard (1946; “Poems of the Night and of the Fog”), many of which he wrote in the camp; his seminal essay Lazare parmi nous (1950; “Lazarus Among Us”); and his prizewinning trilogy of novels, Je vivrai l'amour des autres (1947–50; “I Will Live the Love of Others”). The figure of Lazarus (a biblical character who was raised from the dead) is a central image in Cayrol's work. His characters are estranged from the normal world of people and things and drift through shadowy, passive existences on its outskirts.

      Cayrol was a prolific writer, producing fiction, poems, essays, and screenplays. His novels include L'Espace d'une nuit (1954; All in a Night) and Les Corps étrangers (1959; Foreign Bodies), the only translated works to receive a considerable English audience. Other notable novels are Le Froid du soleil (1963; “The Chill of the Sun”); Midi Minuit (1966; “Midday Midnight”); Je l'entends encore (1967; “I Still Hear It”); a series of novels examining the characteristics of place, including Histoire d'un prairie (1969; “Story of a Prairie”), Histoire d'un désert (1972; “Story of a Desert”), Histoire de la mer (1973; “Story of the Sea”), Histoire de la forêt (1975; “Story of the Forest”), Histoire d'une maison (1976; “Story of a House”), and Histoire du ciel (1979; “Story of the Sky”); Les Quatre Saisons (1977; “The Four Seasons”); and Exposés au soleil (1980; “Exposed to the Sun”). He also wrote several volumes of Poésie-Journal (1969, 1977, 1980), a running record of his impressions, and several later volumes of poetry.

      Cayrol was chief literary consultant to the publishing house Éditions du Seuil. He also collaborated with French film director Alain Resnais (Resnais, Alain) on the acclaimed Holocaust documentary Nuit et brouillard (1955; Night and Fog). In 1974 Cayrol was elected to the Académie Goncourt.

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