Armand Robin Explained

Armand Robin (January 19, 1912 - March 29, 1961) was a Breton poet, translator, and journalist.

He joined the French Anarchist Federation in 1945, which published his Poèmes indésirables (Undesirable Poems). He authored "La fausse parole" (The False Word), which dissected the mechanisms of propaganda in the totalitarian countries.^[1]

He was arrested on March 28, 1961 after an altercation in a cafe. He was taken to a local police station and beaten up by police. He was transferred to the special infirmary at the Paris Police Prefecture and died in suspicious circumstances. According to Jacques Bergier, the police were unable to explain the motives for their actions.^[2]

Works

Own poetry with translations

Ma vie sans moi (1940); My life without me

Poetry

Poèmes indésirables (1945)
Le Monde d'une voix, Éditions Gallimard (1968)
Fragments, Gallimard (1992)
Le cycle du pays natal, La Part Commune (2000)

Translations

Poèmes d'Ady, Le Seuil (1946), Le temps qu'il fait (1991)
Poèmes de Boris Pasternak (1946)
Quatre Poètes russes (1949)
Poésie non traduite (1953)
Poésie non traduite II (1958)
Rubayat d'Omar Khayam (1958)
Les Gaillardes Épouses de Windsor et Othello de Shakespeare (1958)
Le Roi Lear de Shakespeare (1959)
Écrits oubliés II, Ubacs (1986)

Novel

Le Temps qu'il fait (1942)

Radio broadcasts

Pâques fête de la joie, Calligrammes (1982)
Poésie sans passeport, Ubacs (1990)

Essays, articles

La fausse Parole, Minuit (1953), Le Temps qu'il fait (2002)
L'homme sans nouvelle, Le temps qu'il fait (1981)
Écrits oubliés I, Ubacs (1986)
Expertise de la fausse parole, Ubacs (1990)

Correspondence

Lettres à Jean Guéhenno, Lettres à Jules Supervielle, Librairie La Nerthe (2006)

Notes and References

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RobinArmand.htm "Armand Robin" The Anarchist Encyclopedia: A Gallery of Saints & Sinners, January 2006
Book: Bergier, Jacques . Visa pour une autre Terre . Albin Michel . 2-226-00039-9 . Paris . 1974 . 63-65 . French.