Chirping of shadows.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 23684 |
| Format | 14 x 22 |
| Détails | 248 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Saint-Clement-de-Rivière, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782377920143 |
Philippe Jaccottet was born in Moudon, Switzerland, in 1925. In 1941, he met Gustave Roud, who introduced him to Novalis and Hölderlin. At the age of twenty, he traveled to Italy, met Ungaretti, and then to France, where he stayed in Paris from 1946 to 1952. Moving beyond both existentialism and surrealism, Jaccottet established a more concrete classicism. In 1953, he settled in Provence in Grignan with his wife, a painter, and his two children, at the time of the publication of his first major collection: L'effraie et autres poésies. In addition to a large body of poetic work, he also produced numerous translations: Ungaretti and Musil, whose work he made almost entirely accessible to French readers.
Henri Thomas was born in 1912. Close to Gide and the NRF group, he formed strong literary friendships early on. He published his first novel, The Coal Bucket, in 1940, then the following year his first collection of poetry, Blind Work. After a few years in London, John Perkins, winner of the Prix Médicis in 1960, then The Promontory, winner of the Prix Femina in 1961, brought him a certain notoriety. The year 1965 marked the beginning of a dark period. Widowed, he published only a few meager booklets before returning to intense creative activity in 1985.
The correspondence between these two major figures in poetry is the watermark of half a century of literary history. It began in 1949 and only ended in 1993 with the death of Henri Thomas. Brought together by the same concern for balance between “the delight and torture of living,” between anguish and splendor, it is first and foremost poetry that is at the center of their exchanges: literature is the only major subject of this living reflection.
Philippe Jaccottet was born in Moudon, Switzerland, in 1925. In 1941, he met Gustave Roud, who introduced him to Novalis and Hölderlin. At the age of twenty, he traveled to Italy, met Ungaretti, and then to France, where he stayed in Paris from 1946 to 1952. Moving beyond both existentialism and surrealism, Jaccottet established a more concrete classicism. In 1953, he settled in Provence in Grignan with his wife, a painter, and his two children, at the time of the publication of his first major collection: L'effraie et autres poésies. In addition to a large body of poetic work, he also produced numerous translations: Ungaretti and Musil, whose work he made almost entirely accessible to French readers.
Henri Thomas was born in 1912. Close to Gide and the NRF group, he formed strong literary friendships early on. He published his first novel, The Coal Bucket, in 1940, then the following year his first collection of poetry, Blind Work. After a few years in London, John Perkins, winner of the Prix Médicis in 1960, then The Promontory, winner of the Prix Femina in 1961, brought him a certain notoriety. The year 1965 marked the beginning of a dark period. Widowed, he published only a few meager booklets before returning to intense creative activity in 1985.
The correspondence between these two major figures in poetry is the watermark of half a century of literary history. It began in 1949 and only ended in 1993 with the death of Henri Thomas. Brought together by the same concern for balance between “the delight and torture of living,” between anguish and splendor, it is first and foremost poetry that is at the center of their exchanges: literature is the only major subject of this living reflection.