Henri Meschonnic

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Henri Meschonnic

Henri Meschonnic (born September 18, 1932 in Paris , †  April 8, 2009 in Villejuif ) was a French poet , language theorist and translator . Until 1997 he taught as professor of linguistics and literature at the University of Paris VIII .

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He developed his language theory from practice, from his poetry and translations. His translation of several books of the Old Testament and his research on Victor Hugo made him famous. The literary scholar Hans Lösener writes about the reception in Germany:

Meschonnic's work is still hardly received in Germany. As far as I know, Jürgen Trabant (1990) was the first to draw attention to him in Germany . In 1999 Achim Geisenhanslüke published an essay on the poetics of Meschonnic in the magazine Kodikas / Code. In the same year my study on rhythm in language was published, which is based on Meschonnic's work. The Canadian literary scholar Lucie Bourassa wrote a knowledgeable and compact introduction to his work in 1997. Translations of Meschonnic's books into German are still pending.

Awards

Meschonnic received several prizes, including

  • 1972: Prix Max Jacob
  • 1986: Prix ​​Mallarmé
  • 2006: Prix de Littérature Nathan Katz for his life's work
  • 2007: Grand Prix International de Poésie Guillevic-Ville de Saint-Malo

literature

  • Lucie Bourassa: Henri Meschonnic. Pour une poétique du rythme. Series: Référence, 12. Éd. Bertrand-Lacoste, Paris 1997 ISBN 2-7352-1112-6
  • Brigitte Jostes: Strangeness. Historical-anthropological explorations of a linguistic category. Schöningh, Paderborn 2004 ISBN 3-506-74029-6 , chap. 4. Zugl. Diss. Phil. FU Berlin 2003
  • Hans Lösener: The rhythm in speech. Linguistic and literary aspects of the rhythm of language . Series: Concepts of Linguistics and Literature Studies, 59. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999 ISBN 3-484-22059-7 . Zugl. Diss. Phil. University of Freiburg i. Br. 1997
  • James W. Underhill: Voice and Versification in Translating Poems. Series: Perspectives on Translation. Ottawa University Press , 2016
  • Marcella Leopizzi: Silences et dédicaces dans les vers d'Henri Meschonnic. Atelier de lecture-traduction. Series: Littératures de langue française, 24. Peter Lang, Bern 2016 doi : 10.3726 / 978-3-0352-0337-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Lösener: Discover the rhythm ( Memento from April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). On thinking about language by Henri Meschonnic. 2003
personal data
SURNAME Meschonnic, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet , language theorist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2009
Place of death Villejuif