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mode of being, and his fiction was widely hailed for its dreamlike qualities. While his work was fantastic, it did not reflect a reductive
Freudian idea of fantasy as a mere substitute for the banal. His predilection for cramped, seedy, confusing and confining spaces, and for irregularities and repetitions in time, prompted some readers to compare his work with Kafka's.
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Marcel Béalu is most consistently associated with the literature of the fantastic, and in particular with the characteristically French strain of imaginative writing. He was intrigued by the equivocal relationship of fantasy or dream to reality, the uncertainty of reality as a distinct property or
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Short animated film by Lys
Flowerday after a text by Marcel Béalu. Narration by the author. "Petite Jeune Fille dans Paris" / A Slip of a Girl in Paris ( Contes du demi-sommeil, Editions Phebus ). 10 min. 35 mm colour, . Production La Fabrique, Arte, CNC and DRAC Languedoc Roussillon 1993 Grand
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were among the authors to appear in the first issue alone. Béalu did not publish a great deal of his own material in the magazine, in part because he chose to be a marginal, remote figure. And he painted, his visual work being another translation of the unreal as was his poetry and fiction.
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National du Film d’Animation Marly Le Roi 1994 Special Design Prize — Zagreb Animation Festival 1994 Second Animation Prize — Dresden Short Film Festival 1995 Visible at The Forum des Images, Paris, in the Collection Paris.
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Anthologie de la poésie féminine française de 1900 à nos jours
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Béalu was raised in impoverished circumstances in the town of
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Correspondance René Guy-Cadou – Marcel Béalu, 1941-1951
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was broadcast in 1966, with Edith Scob and Jean Topart.
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L'Aventure impersonnelle et autres contes fantastiques
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291:L'Araignée d'eau et autres récits fantastiques
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241:(Gallimard, 1944; Le Terrain vague, 1959).
546:Les 100 plus belles pages de Marcel Béalu
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548:, ed. Roland Busselen (Belfond, 1984).
524:Dedicated journals and edited volumes
391:L'Air de vie : Poèmes 1936–1956
233:Mémoires de l'ombre : fragments
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367:(Éditions de la Différence, 1992).
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359:Le Vif : notes et réflexions
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275:(Librairie Les Lettres, 1948).
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481:La Poésie érotique en France
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471:(Éditions de Beaune, 1952).
457:Dernier visage de Max Jacob
249:The Experience of the Night
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503:Enfances et apprentissage
451:Essays and correspondence
419:Paix du regard sans désir
405:(Le Pont Traversé, 1981).
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399:(Le Pont Traversé, 1976).
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343:(Éditions Phébus, 1979).
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143:A. Pieyre de Mandiargues
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365:L'Amateur de devinettes
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341:Contes du demi-sommeil
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465:(Robert Morel, 1968).
415:(Fata Morgana, 1983).
361:(Calligrammes, 1987).
187:La Tour Saint-Jacques
534:Poètes d'aujourd'hui
335:La Poudre des songes
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421:(José Corti, 1988).
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263:(Deux Rives, 1949).
247:(Gallimard, 1945).
239:Mémoires de l'ombre
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589:Le Bruit du Moulin
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497:Le Chapeau magique
459:(P. Fanlac, 1946).
353:Le Bruit du moulin
347:La Mort à Benidorm
323:Passage de la bête
257:(Gallimard, 1947).
204:Les Cahiers du Sud
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515:Présent définitif
493:(Rougerie, 1979).
446:(Rougerie, 1969).
440:(Rougerie, 1967).
434:(Rougerie, 1960).
432:La Dernière scène
355:(J. Corti, 1986).
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551:Luc Vidal,
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413:La Rivière
209:Betelgeuse
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