Terre, mon beau souci. Quand Frédéric Boyer « fait Virgile »
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12879110 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Éric Trudel (Bard College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 406-415 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-9292 • E-ISSN: 1740-9306 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17409292.2021.1975898 |
| OpenAlex | W3209568537 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 3 |
This article takes as its point of departure Frédéric Boyer’s 2019 translation of Virgil’s Georgics (under the title Le Souci de la terre) and the long introductory essay that accompanies it, entitled “Faire Virgile.” These last two words, understood as an invitation or, in fact, as an imperative to follow a manner of “doing,” to emulate or to translate the most unlikely of poetic models—a text “written in the Italian countryside more than two thousand years ago”—, provide us with a way to understand what it might mean for Boyer’s poetry, and more generally for French contemporary poetics, to attempt to “speak the earth.”
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Humanities · Literature · Period (music · Poetics · Poetry · Turning point · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · French Urban and Social Studies · Historical and Literary Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |