Henri Meschonnic

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

References

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 (in French)
• Colloque de Cerisy (in French)
• Interview À la radio suisse italienne September 2003 (in French)
• Poèmes d'Henri Meschonnic (in French)
• Éditions Verdier: Henri Meschonnic (in French)
• Marko Pajević (ed.), The Henri Meschonnic Reader. A Poetics of Society, Edinburgh University Press 2019