The following piece is excerpted from Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters. Jacob was born in 1876 to a non-observant Jewish family in Quimper, Brittany. After succeeding brilliantly at the lycée, he went to Paris for advanced studies at the École Coloniale and in law. He gravitated quickly, however, to a life in the arts. He met Picasso in 1901 and their intense friendship became the nucleus for the community of modern art at the ramshackle studios in Montmartre, le Bateau Lavoir. Jacob experienced a mystical vision of Christ in 1909 and formally converted to Roman Catholicism in 1915. He is most famous for his collection of radical prose poems, Le Cornet à dés (1917) (The Dice Cup), but he published many other collections of poems in verse and prose, novels, short stories, plays, and esthetic meditations. He spent two long periods in association with the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire (1921–28, and 1936–44). He was arrested by the Gestapo in February 1944 and died on March 5, 1944, of pneumonia at the camp at Drancy. He was lucky; his name was on the list for the next transport to Auschwitz.

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马克斯·雅各布（Max Jacob）看法国的沦陷

下一篇摘自《马克斯·雅各布：艺术与文学的生命》。雅各布（Jacob）于1876年出生于布列塔尼（Quitt）布兰塔尼（Quimper）的一个不起眼的犹太家庭。在lycée取得了辉煌的成就后，他前往巴黎的ÉcoleColoniale和法律学院进修。然而，他很快被艺术生活所吸引。他在1901年遇见了毕加索，而他们的亲密友谊成为勒巴图拉沃瓦蒙马特（Montmartre）摇摇欲坠的工作室在现代艺术界的核心。雅各布（Jacob）于1909年经历了对基督的神秘幻想，并于1915年正式转变为罗马天主教。他以激进散文诗集《勒·科内特·德斯》（Le Cornetàdés）最为著名。（1917）（骰子杯），但是他出版了许多其他诗集，包括诗歌和散文，小说，短篇小说，戏剧和美学冥想。他与卢瓦尔河畔圣贝诺市的本笃会修道院（1921-28年和1936-44年）一起度过了很长时间。他于1944年2月被盖世太保逮捕，并于1944年3月5日在Drancy的营地死于肺炎。他很幸运；他的名字在下次前往奥斯威辛的交通清单上。