Bernard Dimey

Bernard Dimey , born the July 16th 1931 with Nogent-in-Bassigny (today Nogent) (Haute-Marne) and deceased on July 1st 1981 with Paris was a poet French and author of songs.

Biography

He starts to make radio, then written in the review Esprit . It is interested in painting (it painted under the name of Zelter ). It is installed in Paris at 25 years on the Hillock Montmartre.

It will not leave it any more. It attends there the bars, it had not invaded still over there, too much of it there by the tourists. It meets there the soaks, the whores, the gangsters, the artists. And it starts to write its poems, déclamant them in its dens.

He proposes his songs on the right and on the left. Its customers will be Yves Montand, Charles Aznavour, Serge Reggiani, Henri Salvador, Patachou, Juliette Gréco, the Brothers Jacques, Mouloudji, Jean-Claude Pascal…

Its poems were taken again by various artists like Charles Aznavour, Jehan and his/her daughter Dominique Dimey. He also wrote scenarios and dialogs for the cinema.

Bernard Dimey was a disproportionate being which wondered why he often lived with the dwarves.

Being thirsty for absolute, he would have liked to accept the superb paradise of his childhood. The appetite of life of this cordial ogre who burned the candle by the two ends could not hide his evil of living and the obsessing threat of dead which weighed on him. For Bernard Dimey, poetry is “to clarify its night”. This beautiful metaphor of Jean Cocteau, it takes it again on its account in the poems of the “Middle of the night”.

It shares its life with Yvette Cathiard , painter who will make some charcoals of him.

This in love with Montmartre where many places still carry its name was known as author of songs to success: Syracuse , Mémère , My trick plucks etc of it which was interpreted by giants of the French song.

Quotations

  • When I die one will say good of me

  • Addicted to drink, it is a word which neither the dictionaries

Neither the intellectuals, nor people of gratin
will never include/understand… It is a word of misery
Which resembles gold at five o'clock in the morning.
Addicted to drink… and why not? I know hundred times worse,
Those which does not drink, which kisses by chance,
Which is ugly in herd and which does not have anything to say.
Come to drink with me… One will be bored later.
Addicted to drink and why not

  • When one has nothing to say and of the evil to be keep silent,

One can always go gueuler in a bar,
: When one has nothing to say and of the evil to keep silent
One arrives at the top of the imbecillity.
When one has nothing to say

  • When one has only his BOTTOM, but that one with youth, one in the island with the (French) Treasury with range of the hand!

Its work

One finds in the memories of the Academic Company of the Paddle of 2004 a communication of Robert Poisson entitled: A new novel of Bernard Dimey: The wine Spot ; A Trojan route in the Years 1950.

It is about the study of a new novel of Dimey which was never published and whose tapuscrit was preserved after he had been entrusted to Jean Puissant, Directeur of the Youth and the Sports of the Paddle. This early work (1951) plentiful is held between banks of the old channel and the Districts-Low.

Around a crime that nobody will seek to elucidate, it is the slow rise of the anguish of the kid who made it; it is the meeting of three young men who, witness direct or indirect, animated by their ambition, their concern or their generosity, will intervene in the wandering of the teenager.

Troyes, the banks of the channel, the districts-low, the factories constitute the backdrop of this history in which one finds the recurrent themes, expensive in Bernard Dimey.

Other novels will never be published: Terrible miracles ''; '' wine of the Vine with Jérémie ''; '' Mico ''; '' Allumettes or the left hand ''; '' the Headmaster ''.

Another aspect of Bernard seldom evoked Dimey: its talent of draftsman and painter. (Exposure under the pseudonym of Zelter).

Songs

The most known songs whose Bernard Dimey had signed the words are:

He is different, the least known:

  • Frédo , sung inter alia by the Brothers Jacques
  • If you me pays glass , sung inter alia by Serge Reggiani
  • One evening in Gerpil , sung by Mouloudji
  • the woman of the sailor , sung by Francesca Solleville
  • the Room and the Terrace sung by Charles Aznavour
  • the lords sung amongst other things by Tristan Lea and Serge Reggiani
  • Madam the Marchioness said , sings by the Brothers Jacques
After the death of Dimey, several interpreters tested themselves with other settings in music:
  • Charles Aznavour sings Dimey by Charles Aznavour (1983)
  • Dimey sings Dimey by Dominique Dimey
  • Divin Dimey by Jehan
  • the group My punk side and Melanie Dahan interprets also some texts of Dimey.

Poetry

The Bestiary of Paris

the Bestiary of Paris is undoubtedly its most ambitious work and the most completed. This continuation of 66 Quatrain S in Alexandrin S reviews with nostalgia the images of Épinal of popular and Bohemian Paris, to lead to an apocalyptic vision.

As much from poems of Dimey, the Bestiaire of Paris profits from a musical accompaniment of Francis Lai, than the type-setter interpreted itself with the Accordéon. It was recorded twice: in 1962, by Pierre Brasseur and Juliette Gréco, and in 1974 by the author, Magali Christmas and Mouloudji. CD presents the two versions.

Poetic collections

  • Requiem with drinking , Seghers editions, 1954
  • Village fairs of antan , Seghers editions, 1956
  • Poems hooligans, the Bestiary of Paris, Will , Mouloudji editions, 1978
Four posthumous collections, published in the beginning of the year 1990 by the editions Christian Pirot, gather the near total of work:
  • I will not say all
  • the middle of the night
  • Sable and ashes
  • Kermesses of antan

Discs of poetry

So some of its texts were put in songs, much as well adapt to be known as. The author thus recorded several albums where he interprets, in general on bottom of Accordéon, of the texts like:
  • With the Lux bar
  • I will fly away
  • the Regret of the brothels
  • Mister the duke
  • the Children of Attila

Of alive sound they had made them appear on several vinyls (with the discs Déesse ):

  • Addicted to drink and why not
  • Volume 2 - the hippopotamus
  • I will finish my life with the Salvation Army
  • the Bestiary of Paris
  • Poèmes with straps
  • Testament vol. 1 & 2

These recordings, with news, were republished out of CD:

  • Sea with drinking
  • the Will
  • the Bestiary of Paris
  • Dimey sung by his/her friends
  • Castles of Spain
  • Ink according to midnight
  • Bernard Dimey, Poets and songs

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External bonds

  • Official site
  • semi-official Site
  • Ridges knowledge with Bernard Dimey (contains some texts)

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