Occupation Poet Nationality French Literary movement Surrealism | Name Jean Venturini Books Outlines Role Poet | |
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Born Jean-Bernard VenturiniSeptember 17, 1919Nabeul, Tunisia ( 1919-09-17 ) | ||
Jean Venturini is a French poet and a sailor who was born in Nabeul, Tunisia, on 17 September 1919 and died in a submarine crash, in the Mediterranean Sea (he was only 20 years old), on 17 June 1940.
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Biography
Jean Venturini spent most of his childhood in Morocco. In his teens, he studied at a high school near Meknes. To the age of 16, he felt an irresistible poetic vocation born: he began to write many poems, later collected in the book entitled Outlines, published in November 1939. This is his only work. Indeed, he died in June 1940, with the entire crew of the submarine called "Morse", which exploded hitting a mine. He had trained as a marine transmissions, before engaging in the French Navy in 1939.
Outlines is a collection of poems heavily influenced by the theories of poet Arthur Rimbaud. With its themes and writing, this work is very close to the surrealist aesthetic.