Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy (* June 24, 1923 in Tours ) is a French poet, author, translator and university teacher. Bonnefoy Mathilde Bonnefoy is the father of.
Life
Bonnefoy studied mathematics and philosophy in Tours, Poitiers and at the Sorbonne in Paris. After the Second World War, he studied art history and toured Europe and the United States. In 1944, he joined the Surrealists at first, which is particularly influenced his first, in 1946 erschienes work Traité du pianiste. From the beginning of his work, the volumes of poetry Douve come in motion and motionless, the rule of Yesterday: Desert and Inscribed stone, which were published in France 1953-1965. They are available in German translation by Friedhelm Kemp, as well as his latest book of poems The curved planks. In 1967 he started together with André du Bouchet, Gaëtan Picon and Louis -René des Forêts the surrender of the art and literary newspaper L' Ephemere. His poems and essays on art, specifically about images have made him known in the literary world of the 20th century. His work L' arrière -pays ( ' The Hinterland ', or 'The Land Beyond ') from 1972 including occupies a special place.
Bonnefoy taught at various universities in Europe and in the United States literature, including Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts ( 1962-64 ), Centre Universitaire, Vincennes ( 1969-1970 ), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Princeton University, New Jersey, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, University of Geneva, University of Nice (1973-1976), University of Provence, Aix (1979-1981) and since 1986 the Graduate School of the City University of New York. After the death of Roland Barthes in 1981 he was appointed professor at the Collège de France to the Chair of Comparative Literature.
Bonnefoys poetry is often difficult to access, each poem reveals itself only in relation to the work as a whole. " I do not write poems, so far as the word poem called a closed, independent entity ," expressed Bonnefoy 1972. " What I write, but are aggregates, conventions, contexts within which each individual text is only a fragment. "
Bonnefoy is now considered one of the greatest French poets of the present. In addition, his translations into French, especially the various works of Shakespeare, including the sonnets have a wide recognition. Also on art and art history, he has published several books, including over Miró and Giacometti.
He received the "Premio internazionale di poesia, Gabriele d' Annunzio, '" the 1971 Prix des Critiques, 1995 the Balzan Prize ( for history and criticism of the Fine Arts in Europe) and the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca. 2007, he was with the Franz Kafka Prize of Prague's Franz Kafka Society and the Horst- Bienek prize for Poetry.
Works
- L' encore aveugle - The still blind. Poems. Rimbaud, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89086-793-6. (French / German )
- Les planches courbes - The curved planks. Poems. Transferring and with an afterword provided by Friedhelm Kemp. Klett Cotta, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-608-93657-2. (French / German )
- Underscoring write. Poems. Bilingual edition. German by Elisabeth Edl and Wolfgang Matz. Lyrik Kabinett, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-938776-33-9.