Marcel Martinet (Dijon, 22 August 1887 – Saumur, 18 February 1944) was a French pacifist socialist revolutionary militant and a prolétarian writer.
Life Martinet, a Communist and pacifist, opposed the First World War from its outset: his antiwar poems Les temps maudits were banned in France during the war, but circulated secretly: helped by Marguerite Rosmer, he sent copies on thin paper to soldiers at the front.Ian Birchall, 'Introduction', Victor Serge, Revolution In Danger, Haymarket Books, 2011, p. 4 La Maison à l'Abri, a novel about the First World War, was runner-up for the Prix Goncourt in 1919.Michael Rosen, Europe's charnel house (review of George Paizis, Marcel Martinet: poet of the revolution), The Guardian, 2 February 2008 Martinet's poem La Nuit, completed in 1919, was published in 1922 with a preface by Leon Trotsky,Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas Kellner, Passion and rebellion: the expressionist heritage, Taylor & Francis, 1983, p. 119 whom Martinet had befriended when Trotsky was in Paris. Martinet's series Les Cahiers du Travail [Labour Notebooks] published pamphlets by Victor Serge.
His son was the surgeon Jean-Daniel Martinet.
Works Les temps maudits; poèmes, 1914-1918, 1918 La Maison à l'Abri Culture prolétarienne, 1935 Correspondance croiseé : 1932-1944, Bassac: Plein Chant, 1987.
References
Further reading George Paizis, Marcel Martinet: poet of the revolution, London: Francis Boutle, 2007
External links Nicole Racine, Marcel Martinet (1887-1944)