Yves bonnefoy was born in in tours, france on june 24, 1923. Poet, essayist, art and literary critic, translator and editor, yves bonnefoy sought throughout to make clear the ground on which this hopefulness was to be built. Jeanyves bonnefoy is ceo of anagenesis biotechnologies since january 2014 and president since april 2015. Marius elie bonnefoy, his father, was a railroad worker, whose job involved assembling locomotives. If the work of yves bonnefoy exalts the perception of the poetic image as a. Mathilde bonnefoy born 11 march 1972 is a french film editor and director who was nominated for an ace eddie award for the editing of the film run lola run 1998 and who won the award for editing the documentary citizenfour 2014. But instead of reading i want you to listen to this frail voice like that of letters eaten by grass. Download yves bonnefoy is the most important and influential french poet to have emerged since the second world war. Yves bonnefoy was born in tours to a workingclass family. Yves bonnefoy is a key figure in the french literary reception of shakespeare. He studied mathematics, the history of science, and philosophy at both the university of poitiers and the sorbonne. Yves bonnefoy was born in tours, france to a railroad worker and a schoolteacher.
Nov 02, 2012 t his spring, before stephen romers longawaited translation of larrierepays appeared, yves bonnefoy mused about the englishing of the title. Jul 06, 2016 yves bonnefoy was born on june 24, 1923, in tours. Yves bonnefoy 1923 french poet, essayist, critic, fabulist, editor, and translator. Bonnefoys mother helene maury was a teacher, as her own father had been, and looked after the education of her son. Yves bonnefoys mythologies not only summarizes the progress that has already been made toward this end, but also lays the foundation for the difficult work that lies ahead. Yves bonnefoy born 24 june 1923 is a french poet and essayist.
Yves bonnefoy 19232016 is recognized as the greatest french poet of the past fifty years. He is the author of ten major collections of verse, several books of tales, and numerous studies of literature and art, and was a celebrated translator of shakespeare, yeats, keats, and leopardi. Essays and criticism on yves bonnefoy critical essays. Yves bonnefoy poems poems of yves bonnefoy poem hunter. The mythological traditions of turkey, korea, tibet, and mongolia are also included.
By yves bonnefoy jstor and the poetry foundation are collaborating to digitize, preserve, and extend access to poetry. Bonnefoys father was a railroad employee, his mother a teacher. Yves bonnefoy editor, wendy doniger goodreads author translator 3. He studied mathematics at the university of poitiers and philosophy at the sorbonne, where he completed a thesis on soren kierkegaard and charles baudelaire.
Yves bonnefoy 1923624201671 was a french poet and essayist. The book new and selected poems, yves bonnefoy is published by university of chicago press. He studied mathematics, the history of science, and philosophy at both. Yves jean bonnefoy, poet and essayist, born 24 june 1923. His works have been of great importance in postwar french literature, at the same time poetic and theoretical, examining the meaning of the spoken and written word. Join facebook to connect with yves bonnefoy and others you may know. Bonnefoy was also a respected critic, scholar, and translator. The central thematic concern of his poetry is the lifedeath relationship. Yves bonnefoy articles by yves bonnefoy autumn 2016 yeatss poetics.
From the beginning of his poetic career, yves bonnefoys work has sounded the note of a serious pursuit of the truths which language reveals. He is the author of a critical study of yves bonnefoy called the poetics of yves bonnefoy and the editor of a volume of bonnefoys essays in translation entitled the act and the place of poetry. Translator beverley bie brahic remembers yves bonnefoy 1923. This essay explores his interpretations and translations of shakespeares plays and poems, informed by his own poetic vision, anchored in a literary tradition whose high points include baudelaire and rimbaud. He moved to paris in 1943 and was influenced by surrealist poets andre breton and george eluard. The authors capture bonnefoys delicate, stark environments and present them through a characteristically minimal style.
Yves bonnefoy, celebrated translator and critic, is widely considered the most important and influential french poet since world war ii. The poetry of yves bonnefoy aspires to an experience of unity, but constructs itself through confronting an experience of the foreign and. Sep 09, 2016 john naughton is the translator of yves bonnefoys in the shadows light 1991. Yves bonnefoy, born june 24, 1923, tours, francedied july 1, 2016, paris, perhaps the most important french poet of the latter half of the 20th century.
After studying mathematics at the university of poitiers, the young poet. Poet, art critic, historian, translator particularly of shakespeare, specialist in the problem of the relation of poetry to the visual arts and to the history of religions, bonnefoy is now considered one of the most distinguished men of letters of his generation. These articles explore mythologies in societies from india to japan. Poet, essayist, art and literary critic, translator and editor, bonnefoy sought throughout to make clear the ground on which this. This article investigates how yves bonnefoy uses the white canvas of snow to experiment with punctual dashes of colour in the. Publication date 1992 topics mythology, greek, mythology, egyptian, mythologie, mythologie. Chicagostyle citation style sheet chicago manual of style. By the time of his death, he had published eleven major collections of poetry in verse and prose, several books of tales, and numerous studies of literature and art. Yves jean bonnefoy 24 june 1923, tours 1 july 2016 paris was a french poet and art historian.
Poetics of yves bonnefoy 283 this bonnefoy tends summarily to evoke with the terms image or imaginaire, urging us to recognize, within ourselves, the contrary pulls of presence and a will to be, for being, that, for the poet, can only be satisfied by an act of considerably delicate, but sure, equilibrium. Contemporary french poet yves bonnefoy has, over the course of his long career. His father, elie, who worked in a locomotiveassembly shop, died when yves was. Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to author n. Bonnefoy, yves 1923 bonnefoy is a french critic, poet, translator, essayist, and art historian.
Yves bonnefoy author page at amazon, who died in july 2016, is often acclaimed as one of frances greatest poets. After studying mathematics at the university of poitiers, the young poet moved to paris, where he came under. Yves bonnefoy was born in tours, france, on 24 june 1923, into a family from lot and aveyron. Selected essays 1989 and shakespeare and the french poet 2004, and co editor, with anthony rudolf, of his new and selected poems 1995, all published by the university of chicago press. I would like to bring together, almost identify, poetry and hope. Bonnefoy is viewed as one of the finest poets and most influential figures in contemporary french poetry. Yves bonnefoy, who was generally regarded as frances preeminent poet of the postwar era, as well as its leading translator of shakespeare and a wideranging art critic in the spirit of baudelaire, died on friday in paris. An ecocritical reading of yves bonnefoys punctual colour work. His translation of bonnefoys ce qui fut sons lumiere and his book on louisrene des forets will appear in 1991. Bonnefoy was educated at lycee descartes, in tours, until the end of mathematiques speciales a postsecondary school preparatory year for university mathematics. Jul 31, 2016 so wrote the french poet yves bonnefoy, who has died aged 93. His father worked for the railways, his mother was a schoolteacher. Yves bonnefoy and shakespeare as a french poet oxford handbooks. Bonnefoy is also a distinguished translator of english poets, such as donne and shakespeare, keats and yeats.
Passerby, these are words poem by yves bonnefoy poem hunter. Among the many topics are buddhist and hindu symbolic systems, myth in preislamic iran, indonesian rites of passage, chinese cosmology and demons, and japanese conceptions of the afterlife and the vital spirit. Pdf in this article, we attempt to examine, briefly, the notion of poetic image in. Bonnefoy was born in tours, indreetloire, the son of a railroad worker and a teacher. Bonnefoy s father was a railroad employee, his mother a teacher. Though unsteady in places, poems of yves bonnefoy 1 is a finely crafted collection of probing poetry. Yves jean bonnefoy 24 june 1923, tours 1 july 2016 paris was a french poet and art. Yves bonnefoy, selected prose works in translation loyola. Yves bonnefoy, perhaps the most important french poet of the latter half of the 20th century. Books by yves bonnefoy author of les planches courbes.
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