Armand Guibert

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Armand Guibert (born March 11, 1906 in Azas , Haute-Garonne department , † July 10, 1990 in Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe ) was a French poet, editor, English scholar, Romanist , Hispanist , Lusitanist and translator.

life and work

Guibert attended high school in Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe until 1922. Then he studied English at the University of Toulouse (graduating in 1926) and was from 1926 to 1928 lecturer for French at the University of Cambridge , from 1929 English teacher at high schools in Tunis . There he met Jean Amrouche and developed a rich literary activity as an author, editor and translator. In 1941 he met Albert Camus and Emmanuel Roblès in Algiers . In 1941 he went to Lisbon , where he discovered the work of Fernando Pessoa , for whose fame in France and in the world he made a significant contribution. From 1944 to 1945 he taught at the Lycée Chateaubriand in Rome and from 1945 at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris. Even in retirement (from 1966) he remained active as Homme de lettres . His extensive estate is held at the University of Montpellier III in the Roblès-Patrimoine méditerranéen fund managed by Guy Dugas .

Fonts

Own poetry

  • Transparence , Paris, Les Cahiers libres, 1926.
  • Enfants de mon silence , Toulouse, Studio technique d'édition, 1931.
  • Palimpsestes , Tunis, Editions de Mirages, 1933.
  • Périple des îles tunisiennes , Tunis, Monomotapa, 1938 ( prose poem , award-winning).
    • ed. by Alfred Eibel, Paris, l'Esprit des péninsules, 1999.
  • Oiseau privé , Tunis, Editions Monomotapa, 1939; Paris, Belfond, 1984.
  • Microcosmies , coll. "Oiseau Privé", Paris, 1969.
  • Australes , coll. "Oiseau Privé", Paris, 1972.

Monographs

  • Rupert Brooke , Genoa, Orfini, 1933 (preface by Henri Fauconnier, 1879–1973).
  • (with others) Patrice de La Tour du Pin , Tunis, Mirages, 1934.
  • Méditation sur un timbre-poste. Henri le Navigateur , Tunis, Monomotapa, 1940.
  • Milosz , Villeneuve-les-Avignon, Seghers, 1942.
  • Fernando Pessoa , Paris, P. Seghers, 1960, 1973, 1975.
  • Léopold Sédar Senghor , Paris, Seghers, 1961; 8th edition 1986; (with Nimrod) 2006.
  • Léopold Sédar Senghor. L'homme et l'œuvre , Paris, Présence africaine, 1962.
  • Jean Amrouche 1906-1962. Par un témoin de sa vie , Paris, Lachurié, 1986.

Editor and translator

  • Aldo Capasso , A la nuit et autres poèmes , Tunis, Mirages, 1935 (foreword by Valéry Larbaud ).
  • (with others) Federico Garcia Lorca , Chansons gitanes , Tunis, Mirages, 1935.
  • Roy Campbell , Adamastor , Tunis, Mirages, 1936.
  • (Ed.) Jean Bercher, Suite espagnole , Tunis, Mirages, 1937.
  • Salvador Novo , Nouvel amour , Tunis, Mirages, 1937 (original 1933).
  • Érico Veríssimo , L'Inconnu , Paris, Plon, 1955.
  • Merícia de Lemos (1913–1996), "Rosa rosae" , Paris, Seghers, 1959.
  • Manuel Teixeira Gomes , Sabina Freire. Comédie en 3 actes , Paris, PUF, 1971.

Translator by Fernando Pessoa

  • Bureau de tabac et autres poèmes , Paris, Caractères, 1955, 2000.
  • Ode maritime , Paris, Seghers, 1955; Saint-Clément-la-Rivière, Fata Morgana, 1980, 2013.
  • Le Gardeur de troupeaux et les autres poèmes d'Alberto Caeiro , Paris, Gallimard, 1960, 1987, 1993.
  • Ode triomphale et autres poèmes de Alvaro de Campos , Paris, Oswald, 1960.
  • Poésies d'Alvaro de Campos. "Poesias de Álvaro de Campos" , Paris, Gallimard, 1968, 1987 (bilingual).
  • Visage avec masques , Lausanne, Eibel, 1978; Paris, Méréal, 1996.
  • Antinoüs , Montpellier, Fata Morgana, 1979, 1991.

literature

  • Robert Sabatier , Histoire de la poésie française. 6.3. Métamorphoses et modernité , Paris, Albin Michel, 1988, pp. 137-138.
  • Une famille de rebelles. Hommage à Armand Guibert (1906–1990), ed. by Guy Dugas (* 1950), in: Carnets de l'exotisme 9, 1992.
  • Robert Bréchon, “Armando Guibert et Fernando Pessoa”, in: Lisbonne, atelier du lusitanisme français. Actes du colloque organisé par le CREPAL (Center de recherche sur les pays lusophones), Université Paris 3-Sorbonne nouvelle, 23-24 janvier, 2004 , ed. by Jacqueline Penjon and Pierre Rivas, Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2005, pp. 87–92
  • Guy Dugas, Armand Guibert, "poète nomade" 1906-1990 , Nîmes, Académie de Nîmes, 2007.
  • Celine Brugeron, Armand Guibert et la "Poësie d'abord". Une figure de la "réaction" , dissertation, Montpellier, 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Guibert, Armand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet, editor, English scholar, Romanist, Hispanic, Lusitanist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Azas, Haute-Garonne department
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1990
Place of death Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe