Agnes Rouzier

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Agnès Rouzier (born January 1936 in Paris , † October 15, 1981 in Goursac , Saint-Cybranet , Dordogne ) was a French writer.

Life

Rouzier was born in Paris in 1936, the daughter of the physicist Fernand Holweck and Marie-Agnès Kirmann. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was her godfather. Her father was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and tortured to death; her mother was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp , where she died in 1944. As a result, she was raised by a godmother. No further details of her childhood are known. She later married the interior designer Pierre Rouzier (1934–1996), with whom she lived in the small village of Turnac in the Dordogne. You deal with the restoration and sale of old houses. Your business partner was Bernard Benson , who later became famous for his book “Le Livre de la Paix” (The Path to Happiness).

From 1964 Rouzier devoted himself to writing. Her first novel 'Hélène' was supposed to be published by Gallimard (Collection Le Chemin), the text of her second novel 'Le Prince Russe' was lost. Only her third novel 'Non, rien' appeared in 1974 by Seghers / Laffont in the Change series. This novel was reprinted in 2015 at Brûlepourpoint in Paris. Triggered by this publication, an Agnès Rouzier dossier appeared in 2016 as No. 31 of the Cahier Critique de Poésie (CCP) in Marseille. A few of her articles have appeared in Change magazine. In 1981 the “Lettres à un écrivain mort” appeared in the Swiss magazine Furor. These are fictitious reply letters to Rainer Maria Rilke . She died on October 15, 1981 in the castle of Goursac, Saint-Cybranet, Dordogne. In 1985 “Le Fait même d'écrire” was published posthumously, a collection of all of her literary works, supplemented by diary notes from 1977/78.

Works

  • Non, rien, Paris, Éditions Seghers / Laffont, collection Change, 1974
  • Lettres à un écrivain mort, Lausanne, 1981, Furor No. 4, pp. 53-74
  • Le Fait même d'écrire, Paris, Éditions Seghers / Laffont, collection Change, 1985

New editions

  • Non, rien, Paris, Brûlepourpoint, 2015
  • Dire, encore, Paris, Brûlepourpoint, 2016 

Unpublished / lost texts

  • Hélène, Roman, approx. 1964–1967, approx. 180 pages, burned; about 50 pages can be found in the correspondence 'Lettres à un Jeune Allemand'; the text of the German translation has been preserved.
  • Le Prince Russe, Roman, approx. 1968–1969, lost or burned
  • La jeune fille immobile, novella, after 1970, burned 

Translations

  • Non, rien (excerpt), in: Paul Buck (Ed.) Curtains, le prochain step, Hebden Bridge, Great Britain, 1976
  • Non, rien (excerpt), in: Paul Buck, (Ed). Violent silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille, London (?), 1984, pp. 79-82
  • Non, rien (excerpt), in: Stacy Doris et al. (Eds), Violence of the White Page, Contemporary French Poetry, Tyuonyi 9/10, 1991, pp. 139-141
  • Non, rien (excerpt), in: Cydney Chadwick (Ed), AVEC 8, 1994
  • Letters to a Dead Writer, (Lettres à un écrivain mort), (excerpt), in: Norma Cole (Ed.): Crosscut Universe, Writing on Writing from France, Providence, RI, Burning Deck, 2000, pp. 138-143
  • Letters to a Dead Writer, (Lettres à un écrivain mort), (excerpt), in: Lindsay Hill & Paul Naylo (Eds.) Facture, A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, No. 3, Cedar Ridge (CA), 2002, SS 36-41

The "Lettres à un écrivain mort" have been published in two different translations:

  • Letters to a dead poet, (Lettres à un écrivain mort), Saarbrücken, AQ-Verlag , 2017 (2nd edition 2019)
  • My dear Rilke, (Lettres à un écrivain mort), Tübingen, Stauffenburg Verlag, 2017
  • No, nothing, (Non, rien), Saarbrücken, AQ-Verlag , 2018
  • Diary I & II, Saarbrücken, AQ-Verlag , 2019

Correspondence

  • Lettres à un jeune Allemand, Saarbrücken, AQ-Verlag , 2nd edition 2020. This collection of letters contains 266 letters that were written between 1964 and 1969 (in French).

literature

  • Christian Limousin: "Non, rien Agnès Rouzier, L'absence de grace" in: art press No. 21, Paris 1975, p. 31
  • Erwin Stegentritt: “Writing exercise. A long letter and a poem ”, Saarbrücken, AQ-Verlag , 2008, (2) 2012
  • Véronique Pittolo: “Non, rien d'Agnès Rouzier”, in: sitaudis, 2015
  • Jean-Pascal Dubost: "Agnès Rouzier, Non, rien", in: Poezibao, 2016
  • Erwin Stegentritt: "Exercice d'écriture, une longue lettre et un poème", in: Le cahier critique de poésie (CCP), No. 31, pp. 19–30, Marseille, 2016 [translation of the "writing exercise"]
  • Ralph Schock and Erwin Stegentritt in conversation about the correspondence from Agnès Rouzier. Literature in conversation. Radio broadcast on SR2, March 15, 2016. As audio book Saarbrücken, AQ-Verlag, 2016
  • Erwin Stegentritt: "In the engine room of the language of Agnès Rouzier", in: New letters from the European Occident, www.neuebriefeabendland.wordpress.com/ar/ 2016
  • Dossier Agnès Rouzier, Le cahier critique de poésie (CCP), No. 31, Marseille, 2016
  • Marie Étienne, “Disparues”, in: En attendant Nadeau, 2016
  • Renaud Ego, “Note de lecture”, Agnès Rouzier, “dire, encore” et CCP n ° 31, in: Poezibao, 2016
  • Hélène Giannecchini, "Toute écriture qui ne crucifie pas efface", in: Art Press, February 21, 2017, p. 78
  • Till Neu : "Seven pictures for Agnès Rouzier / Sept images pour Agnès Rouzier - Letters to a dead poet / Lettres à un érivain mort", Saarbrücken, AQ-Verlag, 2017
  • Siegfried Plümper-Hüttenbrink, "Note de lecture", Lettres à un Jeune Allemand, in: Poezibao, 4-2-2019 [1]
  • "Go for a walk inside the here", Tilla Fuchs and Erwin Stegentritt in conversation about Agnès Rouzier. Literature in conversation. Radio broadcast on SR2, June 11, 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Agnès Rouzier: Letters to a dead poet . AQ-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2017, ISBN 978-3-942701-33-4 , blurb.
  2. ^ A b Agnès Rouzier: Letter of July 21, 1965 . In: Cahier critique de Poésie . No. 31 . Marseille 2016, p. 11 .
  3. ↑ A review of these two editions was published by Niklas Bender in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on March 21, 2018 (p. 10).
  4. ↑ http://aq-verlag.de/literatur/agn%C3%A8s-rouzier/lettres-%C3%A0-un-jeune-allemand/
personal data
SURNAME Rouzier, Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1981
Place of death Goursac , Saint-Cybranet , Dordogne