{"id":16250,"date":"2018-09-26T09:29:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=16250"},"modified":"2018-09-26T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:29:20","slug":"on-claude-pelieu-james-horton-interviewed-re-pelieu-exhibition-irish-examiner-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/on-claude-pelieu-james-horton-interviewed-re-pelieu-exhibition-irish-examiner-review\/","title":{"rendered":"On Claude P\u00e9lieu: James Horton interviewed re P\u00e9lieu exhibition &#038; Irish Examiner Review."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ImageGrid-image ImageGrid-image-0 CroppedImage CroppedImage--fillWidth\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCCLibrary\/status\/1039069077724123137\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"CroppedImage-image js-cspForcedStyle aligncenter\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DmuDFIGXoAU4mmS?format=jpg&name=small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"326\" height=\"402\" data-image=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DmuDFIGXoAU4mmS\" data-style=\" top:-17%;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/467580789&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start lazyload\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>& here a recent article on the exhibition in <em>The Irish Examiner<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"container content\">\n<div class=\"col-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"col-left-story\">\n<h1>UCC exhibition sheds light on obscure Beat figure<\/h1>\n<div class=\"share-buttons clearfix\">\n<div class=\"addthis_inline_share_toolbox\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/breakingnews\/lifestyle\/culture\/ucc-exhibition-sheds-light-on-obscure-beat-figure-870889.html\" data-title=\"UCC exhibition sheds light on obscure Beat figure\" data-description=\"Claude P\u00e9lieu fought in Algeria and had a key role in bringing the works of Burroughs and others to the world, writes Marjorie Brennan.\">\n<div id=\"atstbx2\" class=\"at-resp-share-element at-style-responsive addthis-smartlayers addthis-animated at4-show\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"at-eaa7e2ff-0e4d-4644-be01-c370bbcf574e\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"generic-text\">\n<div class=\"ctx_content\">\n<p>Claude P\u00e9lieu fought in Algeria and had a key role in bringing the works of Burroughs and others to the world, writes\u00a0<b>Marjorie Brennan<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/remote\/media.central.ie\/media\/images\/c\/ClaudePelieu_large.jpg?width=648&s=ie-870889\" width=\"648\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The influence of the Beat Generation has extended far beyond the writers\u2019 core body of work, most of which was produced in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>At the centre of the literary turned counter-culture movement were the writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S Burroughs. Helping to propagate their work beyond the US was the relatively unknown French poet and artist Claude P\u00e9lieu, who, with his American wife, Mary Beach, completed the first French translations of works by Burroughs, Ginsberg and other Beat writers.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e9lieu is the subject of an exhibition at UCC, curated by James Horton, an English academic based in France.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure>\n<section class=\"quote\">\n<div class=\"quote-wrapper\">\n<blockquote><p>He has this reputation as a bit of an obscure figure, someone who has slipped out of the pages of history a bit<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/figure>\n<p><i>\u2013 says Horton<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had come across his name in footnotes and bibliographies. It is often quite interesting to see who these translators are because more often than not they are not just translators, they have other poetic and artistic practices going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horton\u2019s interest was piqued even further when a few years ago, the Bibliotheque National de France acquired a significant archival body of P\u00e9lieu\u2019s work and correspondence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found some really fascinating things from letters to drawings and collages going back to 1915. That was the basis of my masters research and those are the archives I h ave drawn on for this exhibition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horton says he was drawn to P\u00e9lieu because of his \u2018improbable\u2019 life.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure>\n<section class=\"quote\">\n<div class=\"quote-wrapper\">\n<blockquote><p>He starts off as a young artist in Paris, then begins writing poetry and then quite abruptly at the end of the 1950s, he has a traumatic experience where he has to go fight in the Algerian War. That creates a rupture with France and he moves to the US where he finds a vibrant counter-culture that is very different to the quite conservative cultural system in France<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/figure>\n<p>What I really wanted to get across was this singular trajectory and also an overview of how many different things P\u00e9lieu does with his life<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the exhibition, there are drawings, collages, magazines, translated texts, and a range of quite beautiful books. It is a really interesting life that goes along with a very rich multifarious production of images.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e9lieu moved to the US in 1963 with his second wife Mary Beach, who was a cousin of Sylvia Beach, owner of the legendary Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Co and publisher of Ulysses. Although P\u00e9lieu had led a fairly chaotic life, including developing a heroin addiction, Horton says contemporary accounts show his Parisian propriety was also in evidence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/remote\/www.eveningecho.ie\/portalsuite\/image\/ac44f7cb-242b-4de7-b042-f6d226035b7a\/mainMediaSize=600x325_type=image_publish=true__image.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time they moved to the US, the original Beat generation had become a lot more broad and diffuse, moving towards a counter-cultural movement. They lived at the Chelsea Hotel, and quite a few accounts remember them as being quite proper figures. They were always well-dressed and ready to receive company, quite well put together,\u201d says Horton.<\/p>\n<p>A year before he moved to the US, P\u00e9lieu visited Ireland, a trip that was so disastrous, he ended up seeking assistance from the French consulate. There is a letter in the exhibition from the French Embassy requesting payment of the cost of his deportation back to France. According to Horton, the visit was prompted by P\u00e9lieu\u2019s interest in Celtic poetry and Arthurian legend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you like, it is a sort of European On the Road, with all the farcical and somewhat degenerate elements. He and a friend hitchhiked all the way to Dieppe from Paris, went across to England and via Stonehenge to Wales. Then they arrived in Dublin which Pelieu has nothing good to say about whatsoever. This is a rough translation of what he says in one letter: \u2018It is a rotten city, immensely morose\u2026 full of drunks, crazies,<\/p>\n<p>alcoholics\u2026\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen they more or less get stranded in Galway for a few weeks and end up going cap in hand to the consulate there. He had terrible toothache the entire time. His first wife says he left with all of his teeth and came back with almost none.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCCLibrary\/status\/1039069077724123137\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1039069077724123137\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<article class=\"MediaCard MediaCard--mediaForward customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-scribe=\"element:photo_grid\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 50%\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaAsset ImageGrid ImageGrid--2 ImageGrid--roundedTop\"><a class=\"ImageGrid-image ImageGrid-image-1 CroppedImage CroppedImage--fillHeight\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCCLibrary\/status\/1039069077724123137\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"CroppedImage-image js-cspForcedStyle\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DmuDFIIWsAIfN3X?format=jpg&name=small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"1200\" height=\"406\" data-image=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DmuDFIIWsAIfN3X\" data-style=\"left:-97%;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCCLibrary\/status\/1039069077724123137\" data-tweet-id=\"1039069077724123137\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\">\n<p><a class=\"TweetAuthor-avatar Identity-avatar u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCCLibrary\" data-scribe=\"element:user_link\" aria-label=\"UCC Library (screen name: UCCLibrary)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Avatar Avatar--edge lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1043197030670184450\/rRULMG7L_bigger.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-scribe=\"element:avatar\" data-src-2x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1043197030670184450\/rRULMG7L_bigger.jpg\" data-src-1x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1043197030670184450\/rRULMG7L_normal.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor js-inViewportScribingTarget\" data-scribe=\"component:author\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor-nameScreenNameContainer\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-decoratedName\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-name Identity-name customisable-highlight\" title=\"UCC Library\" data-scribe=\"element:name\">UCC Library<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TweetAuthor-screenName Identity-screenName\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"@UCCLibrary\" data-scribe=\"element:screen_name\">@UCCLibrary<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-brand\">\n<div class=\"Icon Icon--twitter \" title=\"View on Twitter\" role=\"presentation\" aria-label=\"View on Twitter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<div class=\"u-hiddenVisually js-inViewportScribingTarget\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A seminar to mark the closure of the current <a class=\"PrettyLink profile customisable h-card\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCCLibrary\" data-mentioned-user-id=\"154537065\" data-scribe=\"element:mention\"><span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">@<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value\">UCCLibrary<\/span><\/a> exhibition \u2018Claude P\u00e9lieu: On All Frequencies\u2019 will take place in the ORB 1.24 this Thursday (September 13, 17-18h) James Horton, the curator will speak about Pelieu and his research. Open to all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\"><a class=\"u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCCLibrary\/status\/1039069077724123137\" data-datetime=\"2018-09-10T08:32:27+0000\" data-scribe=\"element:full_timestamp\"><time class=\"dt-updated\" title=\"Time posted: September 10, 2018 08:32:27 (UTC)\" datetime=\"2018-09-10T08:32:27+0000\">4:32 AM \u2013 Sep 10, 2018<\/time><\/a><\/div>\n<ul class=\"Tweet-actions Tweet-action--newsActions\" role=\"menu\" data-scribe=\"component:actions\" aria-label=\"Tweet actions\">\n<li class=\"Tweet-action Tweet-action--newsAction\">\n<div class=\"Icon Icon--heartEdge TweetAction-icon\" role=\"img\" data-scribe=\"element:heart\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"Tweet-action--heart TweetAction TweetAction--heartEdge\" title=\"Like\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/like?tweet_id=1039069077724123137\" data-scribe=\"component:actions\"><span class=\"TweetAction-stat\" data-scribe=\"element:heart_count\">5<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"Tweet-action Tweet-action--newsAction\">\n<div class=\"Icon Icon--profile TweetAction-icon\" role=\"img\" data-scribe=\"element:profile_icon\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"Tweet-action--profile TweetAction TweetAction--profile\" title=\"View UCC Library's profile on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCCLibrary\" data-scribe=\"component:news\"><span class=\"TweetAction-stat\" data-scribe=\"element:profile_text\">See UCC Library\u2019s other Tweets<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tweet-InformationCircle--top tweet-InformationCircle--topEdge tweet-InformationCircle\" data-scribe=\"element:notice\"><a class=\"Icon Icon--informationCircleWhite js-inViewportScribingTarget\" title=\"Twitter Ads info and privacy\" href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/20175256\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">Twitter Ads info and privacy<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"resize-sensor\">\n<div class=\"resize-sensor-expand\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"resize-sensor-shrink\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>P\u00e9lieu died in 2002, spending his later years in upstate New York. Horton says there is still plenty more to discover when it comes to P\u00e9lieu .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis archive is incredibly dispersed, manuscripts, the art he made, the correspondence. There has been a lot of detective work but that is also what makes him so interesting. It has been a bit of an adventure; fascinating and frustrating in equal measure. I have had some amazing finds\u2026 I found a few of his original collages at the bottom of a mouldy cardboard box in Paris. There will always be more out there, he was a prolific letter writer, he was writing dozens of letters a day right up until the end. It is quite thrilling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Claude P\u00e9lieu: On All Frequencies is at the Boole Library, UCC, until Sept 30<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \ufeff \u00a0 &#038; here a recent article on the exhibition in The Irish Examiner: UCC exhibition sheds light on obscure Beat figure Claude P\u00e9lieu fought in Algeria and had a key role in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,103],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-16250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-translation","tag-claude-pelieu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16250"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16256,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250\/revisions\/16256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}