Guy Goffette

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Guy Goffette at the Salon du livre 2008 in Paris .

Guy Goffette (born April 18, 1947 in Jamoigne / Gaume , Belgium ) is a Belgian poet and writer .

Life

Guy Goffette published his first volume of poetry in 1969. Since then he has worked as an editor at Editions Gallimard . Goffette's poetry has been compared to that of Paul Verlaine (about whom Goffette wrote a fictional biography): The French poet Yves Bonnefoy said:

“Goffette is a legacy of Verlaine. A poet who has very bravely decided to remain believable in his own life in the most humble moments. He keeps things simple, he's wonderfully able to capture feelings and desires that are common to all of us. Goffette is without question one of the best contemporary poets in France. "

In addition to his poems and fictions, Goffette writes numerous essays and writes regularly as a critic for the Nouvelle Revue Française .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Volumes of poetry
  • Quotidia rouge. 1971
  • Nomadic. 1979
  • Huit muses neuves et nues. Poems on photographs by Miloslav Stibor , 1983
  • Solo d'ombres. 1983
  • Prologue à une maison sans murs. 1983
  • Le dormeur près du toit. 1983
  • La vie promise. 1991, translation of the Italian La vita promessa
  • Le pêcheur d'eau. Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1995, coll. Blanche. Rééd. 2001
  • Icarus. with bilingual translation by Tucker Zimmerman , 2000
  • Solo d'ombres précédé de nomadie. 2003
  • L'adieu aux lisières. 2007
fiction
  • Partance. 1995
  • L'ami du jars. 1997
  • Verlaine d'ardoise et de pluie. Row: folio. Gallimard, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-07-040413-7
  • Elle, par bonheur et toujours nue. 1998 translated into English as Forever Nude by Frank Wynne
  • Partance et autres lieux suivi de Nema problema. 2000
  • Un été autour du cou. 2001
  • Une enfance lingère. 2006
  • L'autre Verlaine. 2007

literature

  • Departing for the “Promised Life” (Guy Goffette). In: John Taylor: Paths to Contemporary French Literature. Volume 1, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey 2004, pp. 62-65 ( partially digitized ).

Web links

Commons : Guy Goffette  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Service du Livre Luxembourgeois
  2. ↑ Guy Goffette
  3. ↑ Amazon.com: Charlestown Blues: Selected Poems, a Bilingual Edition (9780226300740): Guy Goffette, Marilyn Hacker: Books
personal data
SURNAME Goffette, guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian French-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Jamoigne , Belgium