Jacques Prevert

1900—1977

Bibliography

WRITINGS:

IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Paroles (poetry), Editions du Point du Jour, 1945, revised and augmented edition, Gallimard, 1966 , translation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti published as Selections from `Paroles,' City Lights, 1958.
(With Albert Lamorisse) Bim, le petit ane (juvenile), Guilde du Livre, 1951, translation by Bette Swados and Harvey Swados published as Bim, the Little Donkey, Doubleday, 1973.
(Author of introduction) Couleur de Paris, illustrated with photographs by Peter Cornelius, La Bibliotheque des Arts, 1961, translation by Jonathan Griffin and Margaret Shenfield published as Paris in Colour, Thames & Hudson, 1962, Bramhall House, 1963.
(Author of preface) Les Halles: L'Album du coer de Paris, illustrations by Romain Urhausen, Editions des Deux-Mondes, 1963, translation published as Les Halles: The Stomach of Paris, Atlantis Books, 1964 , published as Les Halles de Paris (French, German, and English text), Moos, 1980.
Prevert II (anthology), translation by Teo Savory, Unicorn Press, 1967.
Les Enfants du paradis (screenplay produced by Tricolore Films, 1945), Lorrimer Publishing, 1968, translation by Dinah Brooke published as Children of Paradise, Simon & Schuster, 1968.
Le Jour se leve (screenplay), translation by Brooke and Nicola Hayden, Simon & Schuster, 1970.
To Paint the Portrait of a Bird—Pour faire le portrait d'un oiseau (juvenile; bilingual French/English text), translation by Ferlinghetti, Doubleday, 1971.
Words for All Seasons: Selected Poems, translation by Teo Savory, 1979.
Blood and Feathers: Selected Poems of Jacques Prevert, translation by Harriet Zinnes, Schoken, 1987, reprinted Moyer Bell (New York), 1993.

POETRY

(With Andre Verdet) Histoires (title means "Stories"), Editions du Pre Aux Clercs, 1946, reprinted, Gallimard, 1974.
Grand Bal du printemps (title means "Grand Ball of Spring;" also see below), illustrated with photographs by Izis Bidermanas, Guilde du Livre, 1951.
Charmes de Londres (title means "The Charms of London" also see below), illustrated with photographs by Bidermanas, Guilde du Livre, 1952.
Lumieres d'homme (title means "Lights of Man"), Gu Levis Mano, 1955.
La Pluie et le beau temps (title means "Rain and Fine Weather;" also see below), Gallimard, 1955.
(With Joseph L. Artigas) Miro, Maeght, 1956.
(Contributor) Henry Decanaud, La Pierre dans le souffle (title means "The Stone in the Wind"), Seghers, 1959.
Poemes, edited by J. H. Douglas and D. J. Girard, Harrap, 1961.
Histoires et d'autres histoires (title means "Stories and Other Stories"), Gallimard, 1963.
Varengeville, illustrations by Georges Braque, Maeght, 1968.
Poesies (includes Spectacle [also see below] and La Pluie et le beau temps), Newton Compton, 1971.
Choses et autres (title means "Things and Others"), Gallimard, 1972.
Grand Bal du printemps suivi de Charmes de Londres, Gallimard, 1976
Anthologie Prevert (anthology with French text), edited and with English introduction and notes by Christiane Mortelier, Methuen Educational, 1981.
Oeuvres Completes, edited by Daniele Gasiglia-Laster and Arnaud Laster, Gallimard, 1992.

SCREENPLAYS

(With Paul Grimault) La Bergere et le remoneur (title means "The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep"), Les Gemeaux, 1947.
Les Amants de Verone, Nouvelle Edition, 1949.
Guy Jacob, Andre Heinrich, and Bernard Chardere, editors, Jacques Prevert (anthology), Imprimerie du Bugey, 1960.
Les Visiteurs du soir, published in Deux films francais: Les Visiteurs du soir [and] Le Feu follet, edited by Robert M. Hammond and Marguerite Hammond, Harcourt, 1965.
Drole le drame (also see below), Balland, 1974.
Jenny; Le quai des brumes: Scenarios, preface by Marcel Carne, Gallimard, 1988.
La fleur de l'age; Drole de drame: scenarios, Gallimard, 1988.

Also author of other screenplays, including "L'Affaire est dans le sac," 1932, "Ciboulettte," 1933, "L'Hotel du u Libre- Echange," 1934, "Un Oiseau rare," 1935, "Le Crime de Monsieest le Revelle," 1938, "Le Soleil a toujours raison," 1941, "Les Visiteurs du soir," 1942, "Lumiere d'ete," 1943, "Sortileges," 1945, "Les Portes de la nuit," 1946, "Notre Dame de Paris," r 1953, and "Les Amours celebres," 1961.

OTHER

Contes pour les enfants pas sages (title means "Stories for Naughty Children;" juvenile), Editions du Pre aux Clercs, 1947, reprinted, Gallimard, 1984.
(With Camilla Koffler) Le Petit Lion (title means "The Little Lion"), illustrated with photographs by Ylla, Arts et Metiers Graphiques 1947.
(Contributor) Joseph Kosman, Le Rendezvous: Ballet en trois tableaux (piano scores), Enoch, 1948.
(With Verdet) C'est a Saint Paul de Vence, Nouvelle Edition, 1949.
Spectacle (poems, plays, and prose), Gallimard, 1949, reprinted, 1972.
Des Betes (title means "The Animals"), illustrated wit photographs by Ylla, Gallimard, 1950.
Guignol (title means "Puppet Show"), illustrations by Elsa Henriquez, Guilde du Livre, 1952.
Lettres des Iles Baladar (title means "Letter from the Baladar r Islands"), Gallimard, 1952.
L'Opera de la lune (title means "Moon Opera"), lyrics by Christiane Verger, Guilde du Livre, 1953, reprinted, Editions G.P., 1974.
(With Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes) Joan Miro, Maeght, 1956.
(With Ribemont-Dessaignes) Arbres (title means "Trees"), Gallimard, 1956, 2nd edition, 1976.
Images (title means "Pictures"), Maeght, 1957.
Dix-sept Chansons de Jacques Prevert (title means "Seventeen Songs by Jacques Prevert"), music by Joseph Kosma, Folkuniversitetets Foerlag, 1958.
Portraits de Picasso (title means "Portraits of Picasso"), illustrated with photography by Andre Villers, Muggiani, 1959, reprinted, Ramsay, 1981.
(Contributor) Ylipe, Magloire de Paris, Losfeld, 1961.
(With Max Ernst) Les Chiens ont soif (title means "The Dogs Are r Thirsty"), Pont des Arts, 1964.
Jacques Prevert presente "Le Circle d'Izis" (title means "Jacques Prevert Presents `The Circle of Izis'"), illustrated with photographs by Bidermanas, A. Sauret, 1965.
(With Helmut Grieshaber) Carl Orff: Carmina burana, Manus Presse, 1965.
Georges, illustrations by Ribemont-Dessaignes, Cagnes, 1965.
(Contributor) Alexander Calder, Calder, Maeght, 1966.
Fatras, illustrations by the author, Livre de Poche, 1966.
Prevert vous parle (title means "Prevert Speaks to You"), Prentice-Hall, 1968.
(Contributor) Cesare Vivaldi, Mayo, Instituto Editoriale Italiano, 1968.
Imaginaires (title means "Make-Believe"), A. Skira, 1970.
(With Andre Pozner) Hebdomadaires (title means "Weeklies;" interview), G. Authier, 1972.
(With Rene Bartele) Images de Jacques Prevert (title means "Pictures by Jacques Prevert"), Filipacchi, 1974.
Le Jour des temps, illustrations by Max Papart, Galerie Bosquet and Jacques Goutal Darly, 1975.
A travers Prevert (title means "Through Prevert"), Gallimard, 1975.
Soleil de nuit, Gallimard, 1980.
Pages d'ecriture (juvenile), Gallimard, 1980.
Couleurs de Braque, Calder, Miro, Maeght, 1981.
(Illustrator) Andre Pozner, Jacques Prevert: Collages, Gallimard, 1982.
La cinquieme saison, Gallimard, 1984.
Chanson des cireurs de souliers, illustrations by Marie Gard, Gallimard, 1985.
Chanson pour chanter a tue-tete et a cloche-pied, illustrations by Gard, Gallimard, 1985.

Also author of Le Cheval de Troie, 1946, L'Ange garde-chiourme, 1946, and Vignette pour les vignerons, 1951. Also author r of farces, pantomimes, ballets, and skits, including "Baptiste" (mime play) and "La Famille tuyau de poele" (title means "Top-hat Family"), 1935, and of lyrics for numerous popular songs, including "Les Feuilles mortes" (title means "Autumn Leaves"), set to music by Joseph Kosma. Work represented in numerous anthologies, including Let's Get a Divorce, edited by E. R. Bentley y Hill & Wang, 1958 and Selections from French Poetry, edited by K. F. Canfield, Harvey House, 1965. Contributor to Coronet, Kenyon Review, Poetry, and other periodicals.

BOOKS

Andry, Marc, Jacques Prevert, Editions de Fallois, 1994.
Baker, William E., Jacques Prevert, Twayne, 1967.
Blakeway, Claire, Jacques Prevert: Popular French Theatre and Cinema, Associated University Presses (London), 1990.
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 15, Gale, 1980.

PERIODICALS

Booklist, March 1, 1994, p. 1272.
Library Journal, December, 1987, p. 116.
Modern Language Journal, October, 1949.
Times Literary Supplement, January 19, 1973; September 25, 1992, p. 16.
Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, summer, 1966.
World Literature Today, autumn, 1985, p. 569.*

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