Yusuf al-Khal

Yusuf al - Khal, (ju ː suf Alxa ː l, Arabic يوسف الخال, DMG Yūsuf al -Hal, * 1917, † 1987), Arabic writer and translator of Syrian origin, founded together with Adonis 1957, the magazine Schi'r ( Ši ʿ r) and initiated thus a movement to modernize the Arab literature.

Life

Yusuf al - Khal (after official reading sometime in 1917 ) was born, according to the church records of his birthplace Amar al - Hisn / Syria on May 5, 1916 as the son of Christian parents. Yusuf al - Khal himself later stated to have been born on December 25th.

During his school years, the family moved with him to Tripoli in Lebanon.

Between 1944 and 1948 he taught at the American University of Beirut where he had previously studied philosophy and English literature.

From 1948 to 1955 he lived in the U.S., where he worked at the United Nations, as well as a journalist.

Since 1955 worked again in Beirut at the American University, he founded in 1957 together with Adonis the magazine Schi'r ( Ši ʿ r) and a publisher who published mainly the works of Schi'r authors. In this magazine young, modern Arab writers and poets came to speak, who wanted to break away from the solidified traditions of Arab literature.

As an advocate of such thoughts Yusuf al- Khal was highly controversial. He was accused of " an agent of the West and colonialism to be ".

Yusuf al - Khal was also evident as a translator, especially English and American literature into Arabic name. He also translated the New and partly the Old Testament into Arabic.

In his last year, he sat for the use of colloquial Arabic in the literature and wrote from then on consistently in colloquial Arabic.

Yusuf al - Khal died on 9 March 1987.

Selections

Own works

  • Al- ḥurriyya ( Freedom ), 1944
  • Hīrūdia ( play ), 1954
  • Al -bi ʾ r al - mahǧūra ( The dried-up fountain ), 1958
  • QASA ʾ id fī al - arba ʿ īn, 1960
  • Al -a -Si ʿ ʿ Māl aš riyya al - Kamila (1938-1968) ( poetic oeuvre ), 1973
  • Rasa ʾ il ila Dūn Kishūt ( letters to Don Quixote ), 1979
  • Al- wilādat ath - Thaniya ( The Rebirth ), 1981
  • Al- hadātha fī š -Si ʿ r ( Youth / novelty in poetry ), 1978
  • Dafātir al - Ayyam ( diaries ), 1987

Translations

  • Khalil Gibran, The Prophet, 1968
  • T. S. Eliot, The destroyed Earth, 1958
  • Anthology of American poetry, 1958
  • Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, 1959
  • Robert Frost, Selected Poems, 1962
  • The New Testament, 1958

Yusuf al - Khal translated into German

In German single of his poems have appeared in collections such as in

  • Suleman Taufiq (ed.), New Arab Poetry, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-13262-0
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