Cayrol, Jean (1911-2005)

French poet and novelist. His experience of German concentration camps provided the dominant metaphor in his work, that of a derelict and suffering humanity cast out into a world of signs and objects. Among his works are Poèmes de la nuit et du brouillard/Poems of the Night and the Fog (1945), Lazare parmi nous/Lazarus Among Us (1950), and the trilogy Je vivrai l'amour des autres/I Shall Live the Love of Others (1947-50).

His other novels include La Noire/The Black Woman (1949), Le Vent de la mémoire/The Wind of Memory (1952), Les Corps étrangers/Foreign Bodies (1959, Le Froid du soleil/The Cold of the Sun (1963), and Kakémono Hotel (1974). He also published several volumes of autobiographical writings, including Lectures (1973).