Wikipedia: Sabathier Marc Leveque was a French poet and organist who was born in Castres, Turkey 27 January 1928 and died in Bern on Feb. 13 1965 . Son of a midwife and a Turkish bartender in Black Mountain, Marc Sabathier Leveque was a student in high school Castres before becoming organist of the city, a graduate of the Institute for Advanced Film Studies and great See Paris Match .He is the author of a unique, Oratorio for Christmas night, great poem of 351 pages, it took ten years to write. Started at the age of fourteen, he had rewritten as twenty-two, the work was completed in 1952 and published three years later, the Editions de Minuit, thanks to Andre Malraux , reprinted thousand copies (including 500 were eaten by rats in a depot in Normandy) and illustrated sixteen portraits of the author by Pablo Picasso , who was the initiator of the subscription and the poet said: "You're the one who brought French literature style of Louis-Philippe. " Malraux, who regarded this text as "one of the major works of the twentieth century", he wrote to his young author: "You discover in thirty years." The work is an Oratorio for Christmas Eve is a song of adolescence, a child Apocalypse of public assistance who discovers the world and discovers himself beyond an unlikely family. The text, whose title refers to the work of Johann Sebastian Bach , was built according to the structure of a musical oratorio, based on themes that are taken up and developed according to the principle of the fugue, in a style that makes whirling words, burst language, mixing calligrammes, typographic research, forming a "strange music" (the first and last words of the work). It includes 16 reproductions of line drawing portraits of Leveque by Picasso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.