Yanette Delétang-Tardif Explained

Yanette Delétang-Tardif
Birth Name:Anne Marie Paule Delétang[1]
Birth Date:1902 6, df=yes
Birth Place:Roubaix, France
Death Place:Paris, France
Nationality:French
Movement:Rochefort school
Occupation:Poet, translator, painter, illustrator
Awards:Mallarmé prize (1942)
Renée Vivien prize (1950)
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1957)
Partner:Raymond Tardif
Years Active:1929–1963
Portaldisp:yes

Yanette Delétang-Tardif (18 June 1902 – 4 November 1976) was a French poet,[2] translator into French of Spanish[3] and German works,[4] [5] painter and illustrator.[6] She was a very productive and reputed author of poetry,[7] however she appeared sometimes as a restricted poet.[8]

Biography

Yanette Delétang-Tardif was born Anne Marie Paule Delétang on 18 June 1902 in Roubaix. She was the daughter of Marie Troupeau and Maurice Delétang, an industrialist. In 1927 she married to Raymond Tardif, with whom she lived until his death in 1963 and by whom she had one son named Jean-Loup in 1928.[1] [9]

After her marriage, she took her pen name: Yanette Delétang-Tardif. Then she had been succeeding to establish herself as a fully-fledged writer with the publishing of her first collections of poems: Éclats in 1929, Générer, a poetic work about her motherhood experience,[10] in 1930 and Vol d'oiseaux in 1931.[11] Those early works testify to the sway of Paul Valéry's rhythmic pattern.[12] In her book Confidences des îles written in 1934, she adopted a style revealing the adding influence of Guy Lavaud. Meantime, she published in several periodicals, ranked as a recognized poet.[13] In 1935, the monthly L'Année poétique brought out a special issue devoted entirely to her, in which she had her portrait drawn by Jean de Bosschère.[14] Inquisitive about surrealism as a cultural movement, she was little inclined to its ideological side.[15]

As a poet, she had joined the École de Rochefort, inside which she was the only woman, since the poet Jean Bouhier created this poetic movement in 1941.[16] Even though she had so become a founding member of that talented group of poets, she remained free and defended personal conceptions of poetry, such as the benevolent welcome of Stéphane Mallarmé's poems, very dissimilar from the Rochefort group's poetic ideal. In 1942 she won the Mallarmé prize to honour her work and bring out her book Tenter de vivre.[6] [17] At that time she also met Jean Cocteau with whom she became well acquainted.[18] At her particular request then, Jean Cocteau drew her portrait, once reproduced in his war journal and made a second time in 1943.[19] Like the accomplished artist she admired, she formed a passion for circus about which she wrote articles.[20] [21]

Some surrealists distributed a leaflet at the end of 1942–1943 wintertime in which they mocked her poetical works through her interest for circus arts and aimed to condemn who they considered as collaborationist artists. Thus, among several authors, they put a stress on the single contribution to La Nouvelle Revue Française made by Yanette Delétang-Tardif regarding the period when the quarterly magazine was caught up in the collaboration movement.[22] [23] Despite the vigorous libel actions of those surrealists, she was not banned as an undesirable writer by the Comité National des Ecrivains after the Liberation and,[24] therefore, never prosecuted for collaborationism.

She kept up a correspondence with Max Jacob,[25] who was a well-known figure among the most representative fellows of the Rochefort poetic movement.[26] Then, following his death in 1944, she was the first one to transcribe the most extensive story from witness statements of the martyrdom of the Jewish poet,[27] [28] and proved to be an investigative writer.[29] [30]

At that time, Gérard de Nerval's sonnets The Chimeras and German poets of the romantic era belonged to her beloved literatures, which had played a part in the development of her works. She was especially interested in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, of whom she gave a renowned French translation of the poems — together with Maurice Betz —[31] in 1946. In 1949 she collaborated with Paul Arnold on the French translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's complete poetical works. Although never published in her lifetime, she also created a really fine translation of Nachtwachen von Bonaventura, reflecting her interest in romanticism through a masterpiece of German literature.[32]

Delétang-Tardif's writing was not confined to poetry nor translated works and, following her taste, she wrote novels and completed critical works.[33] She was the faithful friend of the French novelist and critic Edmond Jaloux, of whom she published a biography in 1947. She was elected as a member of the jury for the Guillaume Apollinaire prize in the same year.[1]

She became a member of the Société des gens de lettres in 1948.[34] The year 1950 marked her author career when she was awarded the recipient of the Renée Vivien prize for her poetry collection Sept chants royaux.[35] [36] [37] [38]

From the outset of her career, her nom de plume referred to her husband's family name, which she attached to her father's name. When he died she was plunged into despair. In the aftermath of her husband's death, she cut off from the literary world of Paris and left her position as a member of the jury for the Guillaume Apollinaire prize.[1]

She died in relative obscurity in 1976 in Paris.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Lafitte . Jacques . Taylor . Stephen . 1977 . Qui est qui en France 1977–1978 . Who's who in France 1977–1978. fr . Levallois-Perret, F . Editions Jacques Lafitte . 2-85784-013-6 . 2015-10-14 . 539 . DELÉTANG TARDIF Yanette (Anne, Marie, Paule dite). Femme de lettres. Née le 18 juin 1902 à Roubaix (Nord). Fille de Maurice Delétang, Industriel, et de Mme, née Marie Troupeau. Veuve de Raymond Tardif (1 enf. : Jean-Loup)..
  2. Book: de Ayala . Roselyne . Guéno . Jean-Pierre . Goodman . John . 1 November 1999 . Illustrated letters: artists and writers correspond . New York (New York), USA . Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA) . 978-0-8109-0653-2 . 2015-10-14 . The figure of Orphens accompanied Cocteau throughout the course of his life and work. thus it was only natural that he should charge this mythological hero. his double. with conveying news to his friend. the poet Yanette Deletang-Tardif..
  3. Christ . Yvan . February 1962 . Enrique LAFUENTE FERRARI: Goya — l'Art roman en France . Enrique LAFUENTE FERRARI: Goya — Romanesque Art in France . fr . Paris, F . Société d'éditions et de publications artistiques et littéraires - S.E.P.A.L. . La Table Ronde . 169 . 135 . 0980-4501 . 320230615 . 2016-02-10 . Le texte espagnol de la longue et érudite introduction a été traduit par Mme Yanette Delétang-Tardif..
  4. Book: Sabatier . Robert . 10 February 1982 . Histoire de la poésie française . La Poésie du Vingtième Siècle . French Poetry of the Twentieth Century . 1. Tradition et Évolution . 165 . fr . Paris, F . Albin Michel . 978-2-226-01395-8 . 2016-02-10.
  5. Book: Sanmann . Angela . Poetische Interaktion: Französisch-deutsche Lyrikübersetzung bei Friedhelm Kemp, Paul Celan, Ludwig Harig, Volker Braun . 17 September 2013 . Quellen und Forschungen zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte . 79 . 109 . de . Berlin, D . De Gruyter . 978-3110312874 . 2023-11-23.
  6. Web site: Deletang-Tardif, Yanette. Tenter de vivre. Poèmes . Fiches bibliographiques . Thyssens . Henri Thyssens . 2005 . Robert Denoël, éditeur . 2015-10-14.
  7. Book: Douglas . Kenneth . 1957 . Contemporary art . Yale French studies . New Haven (Connecticut), USA . Yale University Press . 5189961 . 127 . 2015-10-17 . …and Yanette Deletang-Tardif, one of the better known and more prolific women-poets..
  8. Book: Covarrubias . Miguel . Miguel Covarrubias . 1997 . Papelería en Trámite . Papers in Process . es . México, MX . Ediciones Castillo, S.A. de C.V. . 978-968-7415-56-7 . 2015-10-17 . Yanette Delétang-Tardif me intrigó desde su casi total ocultamiento, aunque figura como la única excepción femenina en el recuento de la Poesía francesa contemporánea de Manuel Álvarez Ortega..
  9. Web site: TARDIF Jean-Loup . 2023 . Moteur de recherche des personnes décédées (matchID) . fr . 2023-11-23.
  10. Book: Burnham Cooper . Clarissa . 1943 . Women poets of the twentieth century in France: a critical bibliography . New York (New York), USA . King's Crown Press . 3308699 . 52 . 2015-10-17 . Her Confidences des îles (1934), besides revealing the influence of Valéry, shows that of Guy Lavaud […] She even attempts to interpret her experience of maternity in the detached, cerebral style invented by Valery […] in the book Generer….
  11. Book: Benkov . Edith Joyce . Wilson . Katharina M. . 28 February 1991 . An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers . one A–K . Garland reference library of the humanities . London, UK . Taylor & Francis . 978-0-8240-8547-6 . 300 . Yanette Deletang-Tardif . 2015-10-15.
  12. Book: Stanton . Domna C. . 1986 . French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology . The Defiant Muse . New York (New York), USA . . 978-0-935312-52-2 . 2015-10-14 . 200 . The first published works of Yanette Delétang-Tardif, Éclats (1929) and Générer (1930), from which the selection in this volume is taken, reveal the influence of Valéry's prosody, as does her Chants royaux….
  13. Book: Winckler . Lutz . 1995 . Unter der "Coupole": Die Paris-Feuilletons Hermann Wendels 1933–1936 . Under the "Coupole": Wendel, Hermann Paris-Feuilleton 1933–1936 . Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur . 47 . de . Berlin, D . Verlag Walter de Gruyter . 978-3-484-35047-2 . 2015-10-17 . 236 . Ihre vier Gedichtbände, "Eclats", "Generer", "Vol des Oiseaux" und "Confidences des Iles", von denen die drei ersten bei Aristide Quillet, Paris, erschienen sind, sichern Yanette Deletang-Tardif einen hervorragenden Platz in den Reihen der modersten Frauendichtung, nein, der modersten Dichtung überhaupt..
  14. Bataillard . Aloys . July 1935 . Yanette Deletang-Tardif . fr . L'Année poétique . 12 . 1–16 . Paris, F . Librairie des Trois Magots.
  15. Book: de La Rochefoucauld . Edmée . 1969 . Femmes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui . Women of yesterday and today . LES POÈTES : de Renée Vivien à Marie Noël . 3 . fr . Paris, F . Éditions Bernard Grasset . 978-2-246-80054-5 . 5878552 . 2016-02-25 . Si Anna de Noailles relevait du naturisme, si Cécile Périn, moins connue, était unanimiste, si Yanette Delétang Tardif ou Céline Arnault sont surréalistes, aucune n'a fait de théorie, écrit de manifestes, proclamé de principes..
  16. Web site: Quand les poètes de Rochefort étaient des femmes . When poets of Rochefort were women . Chabod . France . fr . 18 March 2010 . BUA . . 2015-10-15 . Fondé en 1941 par Jean Bouhier et le peintre Pierre Penon, ce groupe rallia […] Yanette Delétang-Tardif […] et une soixantaine d'autres par la suite..
  17. Book: Bufkin . E. C. . 1980 . Foreign Literary Prizes, Romance and Germanic Languages . registration . 80 . New York (New York), USA . . 978-0-8352-1243-4 . 5751182 . 2015-10-14.
  18. Book: Cocteau . Jean . Jean Cocteau . Chanel . Pierre . 26 September 1989 . Le Passé défini: Journal . Past Tense: The Cocteau Diaries . Tome III . fr . Paris, F . . 978-2-0707-1575-6 . 89 . 2015-10-14 . Et revenant l'autre jour rue de Montpensier, avec madame Delétang-Tardif, je retrouvais là l'histoire de mes souffrances….
  19. Book: 13 December 2011 . Ancienne collection Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Cocteau, collection d'un amateur, autographes, dessins, peintres, beaux livres du XXe siècle. . Former collection of Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Cocteau, amateur's collection, autographs, drawings, painters, rare books of the 20th century. . fr . Paris, F . Brissonneau . 20–22 . 2012-10-14 . 707633015 . Ce beau portrait, daté de 1943, est très proche de celui de 1942, reproduit dans le Journal de guerre de Cocteau (p. 42)..
  20. Web site: Rose Gold . Jando . Dominique . 2008 . Circopedia . Brooklyn (New York), USA . Big Apple Circus . 2016-02-13 . In September 1945, in Minerve, Yanette Delétang-Tardif had commented thus Rose's debut with her solo trapeze act at Cirque Medrano: "What is so moving about the debut of this trapezist is that, right away, she has reached perfection.".
  21. Thétard . Henry . Chaumeix . André . 15 December 1952 . Le Cirque: Son public - Ses spectacles - Ses acteurs . Circus: Public - Shows - Actors . fr . Paris, F . Société de la Revue des deux Mondes . . 24 . 687 . 0035-1962 . 476419311 . 2016-02-13 . Dans un « plaidoyer pour le cirque » qu'elle publia voici cinq ou six ans, Mme Yanette Delétang-Tardif écrivait : « Il y a, dans la vie d'un homme, un trésor que nul pouvoir, nulle force au monde ne peuvent lui arracher : ses souvenirs d'enfance. […].
  22. Book: Mansour Desvaux . Marie-Francine . 5 April 2014 . Le surréalisme à travers Joyce Mansour: peinture et poésie, le miroir du désir . Surrealism as seen through Joyce Mansour's work: painting, poetry and the mirror of desire . NNT: 2014PA010520 - Id: tel-01124337 . 139 . fr . Paris, F . Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I . 2016-02-21 . […] le groupe lance un tract intitulé « Vos Gueules » adressé aux poètes collaborationnistes […].
  23. Book: Hoctan . Caroline . 5 October 2006 . Panorama des revues à la libération: août 1944–octobre 1946 . Panorama of magazines after liberation: August 1944–October 1946 . fr . Saint-Germain la Blanche-Herbe, F . IMEC : Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine . 978-2-908295-81-8 . 1036 . 2016-02-21 . Nous pouvons ainsi trouver entre décembre 1940 et juin 1943 les contributions de Paul Eluard, Alain, Henri Thomas, Claude Roy, Eugène Guillevic, Joë Bousquet, Louis Guilloux, Charles Autrand, Yanette Delétang-Tardif, André Gide, etc..
  24. Book: Assouline . Pierre . 1996 . L'Épuration des intellectuels . The Culling of intellectuals . Annexe 5 . 161–162 . fr . Brussel, B . Editions Complexe . 978-2-87027-667-9 . Historiques . 105 . 2016-02-24.
  25. Web site: Fonds Max Jacob-Collection Gompel-Netter Correspondance. Lettres de Max Jacob à Yanette Delétang-Tardif . Racine . Bruno . 2010 . BnF - Archives et manuscrits . Bibliothèque nationale de France . NAF 28312 . fr . Paris, F . 2016-03-08.
  26. Web site: Max Jacob et l'école de Rochefort: poétique et pédagogie . Max Jacob and the school of Rochefort: poetic and pedagogy . Van Rogger Andréucci . Christine . Sustrac . Patricia . 2007 . AMJ – Association des Amis de Max Jacob . Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, F . Association des Amis de Max Jacob . 2016-03-02 . Max Jacob, revenu de Paris pour s'installer définitivement à Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire en juin 1936, devient une figure centrale dans les liens qui uniront les fondateurs de l'école de Rochefort..
  27. Sustrac . Patricia . 2009 . La mort de Max Jacob: réalité et représentations . The death of Max Jacob: reality and portrayals . fr . Les Cahiers Max Jacob . 9 . Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, F . Association des Amis de Max Jacob . 103–127 . 9 . 10.3406/maxja.2009.962 . 0526-8400 . 2016-03-02 . Yanette Delétang-Tardif, la première, a publié le récit le plus étoffé de la mort de Max Jacob à Drancy..
  28. Delétang-Tardif . Yanette . Seghers . Pierre . Pierre Seghers . July–October 1944 . La mort d'un poète . The death of a poet . fr . Poésie . 20 . 14–16 . Paris, F.
  29. Oxenhandler . Neal . 1964 . Unpublished Letters from Max Jacob to Jean Fraysse – Contributions of Max Jacob to Les Feux de Paris . University of California Publications in Modern Philology . Berkeley (California), USA . University of California Press . 35 . 4 . 221–307 . 1358396 . 2016-03-01 . The poetess, Mme Yanette Delétang Tardif, quotes the doctor who attended Max at Drancy, according to whom Max's death was one of calm piety..
  30. Book: Oxenhandler . Neal . 1 May 1997 . Looking for heroes in postwar France: Albert Camus, Max Jacob, Simone Weil . Lebanon (New Hampshire), USA . University Press of New England . 978-0-87451-828-3 . 102 . 2016-03-01 . In the same affectless style a journal entry for November 28, 1944, records the poet's death as reported by Mme Yanette Deletang-Tardif, who interviewed the attending physician at Drancy..
  31. Schneider . Marcel . July 1950 . Les Lettres Allemandes: Thomas Mann et Hermann Hesse . German letters: Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse . fr . Paris, F . Société d'éditions et de publications artistiques et littéraires - S.E.P.A.L. . La Table Ronde . 31 . 153 . 0980-4501 . 320230615 . 2016-02-10 . Rien n'est plus dévotement pur que les brefs dictons en vers, si heureusement traduits par Maurice Betz et Yanette Delétang-Tardif.
  32. Book: Brion . Marcel . 2000 . Suite fantastique . Fantastic suite . Cahiers Marcel Brion . fr . Paris, F . Klincksieck . 2–3 . 222 . 978-2-252-03272-5 . 2016-02-11 . […] l'énigmatique Bonaventura dont les Veillées - ce chef-d'oeuvre du Romantisme ! - n'ont pas encore trouvé d'éditeur en France pour l'excellente traduction qu'en a faite Yanette Delétang-Tardif […].
  33. Achard . Marcel . 1960 . Le métier d'auteur . The job of author . fr . Les Annales, Conferencia . Paris, F . Revue Mensuelle des Lettres Françaises . 111 . 32 . 1766-3601 . 472051127 . 2016-02-25 . Elle aime son métier littéraire qui n'est pas seulement celui du poète mais du critique..
  34. News: 26 May 1951 . Un poéme de... Yanette Delétang-Tardif . 7 . Le Populaire du Centre . Limoges, F . fr . 2023-11-23.
  35. Billy . André . Horay . Pierre . La Gazette des Lettres . 1951 . Prix décernés en 1950 . Prizes awarded in 1950 . Almanach des lettres . 1951 . fr . Paris, F . Editions de Flore . 1156-0010 . 225 . 2016-04-10 . Prix Renée Vivien : Yanette Delétang-Tardif, pour Sept chants royaux.
  36. Grindea . Miron . Miron Grindea . 1962 . Combat with the Amazon of letters . ADAM International Review . London, UK . 29 . 299 . 5–24 . 2015-10-17 . As to the moving tributes by Yanette Deletang-Tardif, Anne-Marie Kegels and Lucienne Desnoues they represent the admiration of three of the more interesting laureates of the Prix Renee Vivien which, since 1949, the Amazon has awarded to women poets writing in French..
  37. Book: Álvarez Ortega . Manuel . 1967 . Poesía francesa contemporánea, 1915-1965: antología bilingüe . Contemporary French poetry (1915-1965). Bilingual anthology . Sillar. Estudios Literarios. Segunda serie . 4 . es . Madrid, ES . Taurus . 332806 . 568 . 2016-03-05 . También ha recibido el Premio Mallarmé en 1942, el Premio Renée Vivien en 1950 […].
  38. Book: Causse . Michèle . Michèle Causse . Cleyrergue . Berthe . 1980 . Berthe, ou, un démi-siècle auprés de l'Amazone . Berthe or half a century with the Amazon . fr . Paris, F . Éditions Tierce . 8588563 . 117 . 978-2-903144-11-1 . 2016-02-26 . La poètesse Yanette Delétang-Tardif, enchanteresse, qui reçut le prix Renée Vivien, aimait venir chez miss Barney quand il n'y avait personne..

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