Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

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Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (born June 13, 1912 in Montreal , † October 24, 1943 in Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier / Québec ) was a Canadian poet and essayist.

The great-grandson of the historian François-Xavier Garneau , grandson of the poet Alfred Garneau and cousin of the poet and novelist Anne Hébert grew up on his family's country estate in Ste-Catherine-de-Fossambault. In 1923 he came to Montreal with his parents, where he attended various Jesuit colleges and took painting courses at the Collège des beaux-arts .

Garneau's lyrical talent was recognized early on, and by the end of the 1920s he received several literary prizes, including a. 1928 by the Association des auteurs canadiens . He published articles in various magazines and founded the journal La relève with Paul Beaulieu , Robert Charbonneau and Robert Élie .

In 1934, rheumatic heart disease forced him to drop out of his studies, and for the next three years he limited himself to publishing poems, reviews, and essays in La relève and other magazines. In 1937 he published a collection of his poems in the volume Regards et jeux dans l'espace .

Disappointed by the low success of his volume of poetry, Garneau retired to his parents' house in Ste-Catherine-de-Fossambault, where he died of a heart attack in 1943. After his death, his poems were set to music several times, including by Jean Vallerand , Serge Garant , Denys Bouliane , Bruce Mather and Jean Papineau-Couture .

A research project Éditer et interpréter les lettres de Saint-Denys Garneau by Michel Biron is running at McGill University in Montréal from 2017 to 2022 .

German language edition

  • Übers. Hans Thill : see dancers; Two-tone landscape in the background of the sky; and two more untitled poems. In: Lothar Baier u. a. Ed .: America writing differently. Quebec literature. Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2000, pp. 200 - 210 (excerpts from: Regards et jeux dans l'espace. Bibliothèque québecoise, 1993, first 1937)

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SURNAME Garneau, Hector de Saint-Denys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian poet and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1943
Place of death Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier