Yves Bonnefoy. Correspondence. Volume 1.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 21146 |
| Format | 15.5 x 21.5 |
| Détails | 1154 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
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How can one reconcile the necessary solitude of the creator with the need to build a community of minds brought together by similar demands? Sharing is indeed the meaning, for Yves Bonnefoy, of the poetic experience, which in his eyes is different from simple literature. One of the moments is that of writing a letter. The edition of his Correspondence combines, as far as possible, the letters he wrote with those he received. It thus brings to the surface the fabric of a man's and a poet's life, with its networks of friendships, constant or shifting according to chance, friction, and separation. This first volume, begun with the collaboration of Yves Bonnefoy, brings together more than nine hundred letters exchanged from the second half of the 20th century, to which are added a few emails. The dialogues, with forty-nine correspondents, are organized around two axes: on the one hand, the links from surrealism – André Breton, Pierre Alechinsky, Christian Dotremont, Georges Henein, Raoul Ubac, Jacqueline Lamba, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Hans Bellmer, Jean Brun; on the other hand, the friendships which after fifteen years led to the creation of L'Éphémère (1967-1972), the magnificent magazine published by Maeght: André du Bouchet, Jacques Dupin, Gaëtan Picon, Louis-René des Forêts and Paul Celan. The other authors of the letters are in no way secondary characters, neither in themselves, nor by the place they occupied in Bonnefoy's universe: Gaston Bachelard, Jean Wahl and André Chastel, his masters; then Gilbert Lely, Salah Stétié, Pierre Jean Jouve, Gabriel Bounoure, François Augiéras, Christiane Martin du Gard, Philippe Jaccottet, Boris de Schloezer, André Frénaud, Michel Butor, Emil Cioran, Monique Wittig, Paul Bénichou, Jean-Pierre Richard or Henry Corbin, to name but a few. Here you will find a wealth of information on the poet's work and the sensibility of an era, with notes enriched with extracts from the Chronology of the writer by himself, also unpublished.
How can one reconcile the necessary solitude of the creator with the need to build a community of minds brought together by similar demands? Sharing is indeed the meaning, for Yves Bonnefoy, of the poetic experience, which in his eyes is different from simple literature. One of the moments is that of writing a letter. The edition of his Correspondence combines, as far as possible, the letters he wrote with those he received. It thus brings to the surface the fabric of a man's and a poet's life, with its networks of friendships, constant or shifting according to chance, friction, and separation. This first volume, begun with the collaboration of Yves Bonnefoy, brings together more than nine hundred letters exchanged from the second half of the 20th century, to which are added a few emails. The dialogues, with forty-nine correspondents, are organized around two axes: on the one hand, the links from surrealism – André Breton, Pierre Alechinsky, Christian Dotremont, Georges Henein, Raoul Ubac, Jacqueline Lamba, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Hans Bellmer, Jean Brun; on the other hand, the friendships which after fifteen years led to the creation of L'Éphémère (1967-1972), the magnificent magazine published by Maeght: André du Bouchet, Jacques Dupin, Gaëtan Picon, Louis-René des Forêts and Paul Celan. The other authors of the letters are in no way secondary characters, neither in themselves, nor by the place they occupied in Bonnefoy's universe: Gaston Bachelard, Jean Wahl and André Chastel, his masters; then Gilbert Lely, Salah Stétié, Pierre Jean Jouve, Gabriel Bounoure, François Augiéras, Christiane Martin du Gard, Philippe Jaccottet, Boris de Schloezer, André Frénaud, Michel Butor, Emil Cioran, Monique Wittig, Paul Bénichou, Jean-Pierre Richard or Henry Corbin, to name but a few. Here you will find a wealth of information on the poet's work and the sensibility of an era, with notes enriched with extracts from the Chronology of the writer by himself, also unpublished.