André Chamson

ANDRÉ Chamson

(1900-1983)

"In our time on your land, the hospitality we have

provided, that bread which you have shared with us, we have,

this experience, the sense of duty. As writers

write our testimonies. If the writers that we

within us momentarily disappeared from violence

human experience which we have just traversed, to awaken

and tell the world that truth and justice are with you, to wake up

and to awaken the nations consenting to run the crime. "

André Chamson. Speech at the Second Congress of Writers.

THE VOICE OF AN ADVOCATE LIBERTADEl Chamson writer André, a member of the French Academy, along with André Malraux, Julien Benda, Louis Aragon, Claude Aveline, Tristan Tzara, and Rene Bloch, the French representatives were attending the Second Congress of Writers convened by the International Alliance of Antifascist Intellectuals who met in Valencia, in July 1937, Jose Bergamin, Corpus Barga, Antonio Machado, Pablo Neruda, Fernando de los Rios, Ramón J. Sender, Vicente Huidobro, Octavio Paz, Carlos Pellicer, José Mancisidor, Juan Marinello Vidaurreta, Nicolás Guillén, Alejo Carpentier, Raul Gonzalez Tunon, Pablo Rojas Paz, Cayetano Córdova Iturburu, Elena Garro, Bertolt Brecht, Ludwig Renn, Theodor Balk, Willy Bredel Egon Erwin Kisch, Heinrich Mann, Maria Osten, Anna Segher, Kurt Stern, Gustav Regler, Erich Weinet, Ilya Ehrenburg, Ernest Hemingway, César Vallejo, Rafael Dieste, Rafael Alberti, John dos Passos, Martin Andersen Nexo-, Se-U Stephen Spender, Emilio Prados, María Teresa León, Plaja Arturo Serrano, Juan Gil-Albert, Herrera Peter Lorenzo Varela, Miguel Hernández, Ramón Gaya, Pascual Pla and Beltran, Jef Last, Malcolm Cowley, Fedor Kelyin, etc.. The Mexican writer Elena Garro told us: "At dusk that day we took the train to Spain. Paz wanted to leave the luggage at the hotel full of bugs and did not score either the name or the street from the hotel.

"We do not wear clothes. We go to a country suffering ..." and only took two suits of thread. In the car were Andre Malraux, with blond hair and light eyes very disturbing, André Chamson, Guillen and many others. We found that there was no electricity or water. "We sabotage!" Said Mancisidor. "Poor Mancisidor!" Commented Rafael Alberti with malice ... "

The novelist, essayist and historian André was born in Nimes Chamson on June 6, 1900 and died in Paris on November 9, 1983. After his studies at the School of ales and, later, in Montpellier, he moved to Paris, with 18 years of age, and studied at the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Chartes, becoming archivist paleographer. He is appointed assistant curator of national museums. In 1935 he founded, with Jean Guéhenno and Andrée Viollis literary and satirical weekly Vendredi, which brought together all anti-fascist writers. Weekly he held the French Popular Front and supported the Spanish Republic during the war provoked by the military rebellion of General Franco. In its first issue Chamson wrote: "Vendredi is the body of the freemen of this country and the echo of freedom in the world." After his baptism of fire in the Spanish war, Chamson participates, with the rank of captain in the Second World War, and directs the transfer of works to the Louvre museum to the castle of Chambord. During the occupation of France by the Nazis involved in resistance. On May 17, 1956 he was elected member of the French Academy and in 1959 he was appointed director of the archives of France.

Most of his works are in the Cevennes framework, including highlight: The bandit Roux (1925), The Long Road (1927), The crime of the fair (1928), Tabusse Stories (1928), Inheritance (1932 ), Year of the vanquished (1934), Back from Spain (1937), The Well of Miracles (1945), The man who walked ahead of me (1948), Snow and Flower (1951), Our ancestors, the Gauls (1958) and The Tower of Constance (1970) As the French writer said: "All of us writers, we do our work based on the experience of man."



Francisco Arias Solis

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