Henri Meschonnic Explained

Henri Meschonnic (18 September 1932, in Paris – 8 April 2009, in Villejuif) was a French poet, linguist, essayist and translator. He is remembered today as both a theoretician of language and as a translator of the Old Testament. The 710-page Critique du rythme, probably remains his most famous theoretical work.^[1] As a translator of the Old Testament he published many volumes, including Les cinq rouleaux in 1970 (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther); Jona et le signifiant errant in 1998 (Jonah); Gloires in 2000 (Psalms); Au commencement in 2002 (Genesis); Les Noms in 2003 (Exodus); Et il a appelé in 2005 (Leviticus); and Dans le désert in 2008 (Numbers).^[2]

Awards

• 1972 Max Jacob International Poetry Prize
  • 1986 Mallarmé prize 2006 Prix de Littérature Nathan Katz pour l’ensemble de l’œuvre
• 2007 International Grand Prix de poesie Guillevic-ville of Saint-Malo^[3]

Bibliography

• Henri Meschonnic, Proposizioni per una poetica della traduzione [1973], translated by Mirella Conenna and Domenico D'Oria, in "Il lettore di provincia", n° 44, 1981, pp. 23–31; then in Siri Nergaard (ed.), Teorie contemporanee della traduzione, Milan, Bompiani, 1995 (2nd ed. 2002), pp. 265–281. ISBN 88-452-2470-8

External links

• Henri Meschonnic (1932-2009) tribute by poet and translator Pierre Joris
• Henri Meschonnic Blog a blog devoted to Meschonnic initiated by Piers Hugill
• Henri Meschonnic 1932-2009 This "cyber-tombeau" at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes links
• Dossier Henri Meschonnic sur le site "sur et autour de Philippe Sollers" Pileface
• Colloque de Cerisy
• Interview À la radio suisse italienne September 2003
• Poèmes d'Henri Meschonnic
• Éditions Verdier: Henri Meschonnic
• Marko Pajević (ed.), The Henri Meschonnic Reader. A Poetics of Society, Edinburgh University Press 2019

Notes and References

1. http://pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=1115 Henri Meschonnic (1932-2009)
2. Book: Meschonnic, Henri . Pier-Pascale Boulanger . Ethics and Politics of Translating . limited . 2011 . John Benjamins Publishing. 978-90-272-8685-7 . 14 .
3. Web site: GRAND PRIX INTERNATIONAL DE POESIE GUILLEVIC-VILLE DE SAINT-MALO - Les Prix - Rencontres Poetiques Internationales de Bretagne . 2008-11-18 . 2014-04-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081118192142/http://www.mipe.asso.fr/malo/Les-Prix/GRAND-PRIX-INTERNATIONAL-DE-POESIE-GUILLEVIC-VILLE-DE-SAINT-MALO.html . November 18, 2008 .