Charles Vildrac
Charles Vildrac, born "Charles Messager", was a French libertarian playwright, poet and author of what some consider the first modern children's novel, L'Île rose.
Born in Paris, Vildrac's first poems were written when he was a teenager in the 1890s. In 1901 he published Le Verlibrisme, a defense of traditional verse. In 1912 he published a collection of prose poems.
He was a member of the Abbaye de Créteil which he founded with Georges Duhamel. He died in Saint-Tropez.
The Prix de poésie Charles Vildrac is named for him.Works
- Poèmes
- Images et mirages, poems
- Livre d'amour, poems
- Notes sur la technique poétique, Notes on Poetic Technique, with Georges Duhamel
- Chants du désespéré , Songs of a Desperate Man, poems
- Découverte, récit novel
- Chants du désespéré, poems
- Le Paquebot Tenacity, theatre play
- L'Indigent, theatre play
- Michel Auclair
- L'Île rose, children's novel, lit. The Pink Island, translated as Rose Island
- Poèmes de l'Abbaye, poems
- Madame Béliard, theatre play
- Prolongement, poems
- D’un voyage au Japon, travel story
- La Brouille, The Misunderstanding, theatre play
- La Colonie, children's novel
- Les Lunettes du lion, children's tale
- La famille Moineau, children's tale
- Le Jardinier de Samos, theatre play
- Milot, children's tale
- Bridinette, children's tale
- Poucette, theatre play
- L'œuvre peinte d'Eugène Dabit, monographie
- Russie neuve, travel story
- L'Air du temps, theatre play
- Trois mois de prison
- L'Honneur des poètes, volume of poems published by the French Resistance; Vildrac's contribution appears under the pseudonym Robert Barade
- Lazare, in Chroniques de Minuit, Les Éditions de Minuit, p. 15-39
- Les Pères ennemis, The Enemy Fathers, theatre play
- D'après l'écho
- Amadou le Bouquillon, children's tale
- Les Jouets du Père Noël, The Toys of Father Christmas
- Pages de journal
