Pierre Minet
Pierre Minet was a 20th-century French poet and writer, whose early career is closely associated to the movement and to his devotion to Roger Gilbert-Lecomte. Critics, who have contrasted the small size of his production with its substantive and stylistic quality, recognise in La Défaite, published in 1947 and subtitled "Confessions", an autobiographical masterpiece, its author's definitive claim to literary fame, that attracted the praise of Antonin Artaud and of André Breton – while the great Italian critic and writer Roberto Bazlen declared he had never read "un livre dans lequel l’intolérance est aussi constitutive, et aussi echt, et aussi éloignée de toute possibilité de compromis..." . Somehow branded as a "livre-culte", La Défaite has had four editions, the latest one by Allia, and has so far been translated in Spanish and Italian to critical acclaim. Also a playwright, radio producer and journalist, Minet has left a dense diary of which extracts have been published.
The corresponding entry "Pierre Minet" of the Literary Encyclopedia contains a comprehensive summary of Minet's life and works:
Category:1909 births
Category:1975 deaths
Category:Writers from Reims
Category:20th-century [French poets]
Category:French [male poets]
Category:20th-century French male writers