Céline Arnauld
Eumenis Megalopoulos | May 31, 2024
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Summary
Céline Arnauld is the pseudonym of Carolina Goldstein, born December 27, 1885 in Călărași (Romania) and died February 22, 1952 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, was a Dada poet and writer.
Céline Arnauld arrived in Paris in 1914 to study literature at the Sorbonne. She met the Belgian writer Paul Dermée who became her husband. In 1919, her first novel Tournevire was published, illustrated by the cubist sculptor Henri Laurens. The same year, the latter made her bust in polychrome stone.
From 1920 to 1924, Céline Arnauld took part in Dadaist activities. We note her participation ("Jeu d'échecs") in the Dada demonstration of May 26, 1920 at the Salle Gaveau, her collaboration with the magazines "Dadaphone", "391" and "Littérature" and her signature on the painting by Francis Picabia: L'œil cacodylate. With the latter, she wrote the text Pilhaou-Thibaou polemical against André Breton and against Dada, which Picabia is away.
On May 21, 1920, the editions of Sans pareil directed by René Hilsum, published the first (and only) issue of its magazine "Projecteur" in the original format of 23 × 10 cm which does not include any drawing or reproduction of plastic work. Dadaist in spirit, derision and self-mockery abound. After the first three pages, properly presented, a pink sheet appears on which Céline Arnauld has written a text in her own hand entitled Ombrelle Dada: "You don't like my manifesto. You have come here full of hostility and you will whistle at me before you even hear me. Have you ever seen a telegraph pole on the side of the road between the nettles and the flat tires, growing painfully? But as soon as it has passed its neighbors, it climbs so fast that you can't stop it... ever. She calls Breton a moralist, Louis Aragon mocks commerce, Picabia attacks the values of the time, and Tristan Tzara explores the sonic power of words with Le Cierge et la vierge.
Having begun to appear in November 1921, she writes in the cinematographic column of the magazine "Action: Cahiers de philosophie et d'art", directed by Florent Fels.
Because of her desire for independence, she continued her literary career on the bangs of Dada, with the support of Hilsum who published her works.
In 1936, Céline Arnauld signed the manifesto of the Association of writers for the defense and culture against fascism.
She committed suicide one year after the death of her husband.
