Cadolive where Jacques Bens was bornOrnithogalum umbellatum or Dame d'onze heures, of which Jacques Bens made the title of one of his books in 1994
Born of teacher-parents at Cadolive, Jacques Bens spent his childhood and his youth in Marseilles, where his studies in zoology were interrupted in 1951 for health reasons. He became the son-in-law of Célestin Freinet, collaborated with the Freinet Modern School Movement and worked at the Coopérative de l'enseignement secaire (CEL).
Jacques Bens worked from 1960 to 1963 under the direction of Raymond Queneau at the Encyclopédie de la Pléiade. Dataire of the College of 'Pataphysics; Bens was a co-founder member of the Oulipo, participated on 24 November 1960 with Claude Berge, Jacques Duchateau[fr]François Le Lionnais, Jean Lescure, Raymond Queneau and Jean Queval at the first meeting of which he was definitively appointed provisional secretary.
In 1963, Jacques Bens returned to the Alpes-Maritimes, where he was responsible for various publishing works and then relations with the press of the Théâtre de Nice (1972–1975). In 1975 he returned to Paris and took part in Jacques Duchateau's Panorama of France Culture and other programmes such as Bertrand Jérôme[fr]Des Papous dans la tête[fr].
Between 1980 and 1991, he was general secretary of the Société des gens de lettres and held the crossword heading of L'Express and Lire.
Works
Jacques Bens himself collected his books under different sections: «prose rimée» (poetry), «prose romanesque» (novels), «prose méditative» (reflexions), «prose didactique» (essays), «prose dramatique» (theatre and radio) and «prose secrétariale» (séessuibs of the Oulipo). He is also the author of the introduction of the collection of the pedagogical works of his famous father-in-law, Célestin Freinet. (Œuvres pédagogiques de Célestin Freinet, Éditions du Seuil, 1994.)
1979: La Semence d'Horus (Contes de l'Égypte des Pharaons), Garnier Frères, ISBN2705002049
1992: Ginkgo biloba, l'arbre aux quarante écus, SEMAPA
1994: Marcel Pagnol, Écrivains de toujours, Éditions du Seuil
«Prose dramatique» (theatre and radio)
1973: Les Frelons, after Aristophanes, Comédy by Saint-Étienne
1986: Les Vaudois, France Culture
1987: Geoffroy Tête noire à Ventadour, Festival de la Luzège
1989: Une si jolie maison dans le soleil levant, Radio France
1989: La Guerre aux étangs, Festival de la Luzège
«Prose secrétariale» (sessions of the Oulipo).
1980: Oulipo, 1960-1963, Christian Bourgois; L'Oulipo, genesis of the Oulipo, 1960-1963, revised and expanded edition, presented by Jacques Duchateau, Le Castor astral[fr], 2005 ISBN2859205934
Trivia
1998: La cuisine en jeux, Zulma[fr]
1999: Mots croisés I and II, Zulma
Posthumous publications
Jacques Bens, textes inédits [Raymond Queneau et la littérature potentielle, Pour une potentialité nouvelle], in Cahiers Raymond Queneau, Association des amis de Valentin Brû, éditions Calliopées, Clamart, 2011, (p.49-64)
Bibliography
Camille Bloomfield, Un Oulipo potentiel: quand Queneau corrige Bens, dans Ouvroirs, Revue d'études sur Raymond Queneau, (p.56-57), Association des amis de Valentin Brû, December 2009, (pp.43–56)
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