Claude Vigée
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Claude Vigée (born Claude Lévi-Strauss; 3 January 1921 – 2 October 2020) was a French poet who wrote in
Life
Vigée was born in
Vigée died in Paris on 2 October 2020 at the age of 99.[3] Among other subjects, Vigée's poetry discusses the suffering of the Jews, the Alsatians, the Alsatian Jews and the Jews in Alsace, but he also deals with the beauty and the transitoriness of the simple, rural heritage. The pursuit for peace and interpersonal accord is also a recurring motif. From his first collection, La Lutte avec l'ange (1949) he imposes himself by the tone both biblical and rilkean of his language, the magnitude of his visions, the anguished fervor with which he seeks the face of God through the immensities of time and space, the happy spontaneity of his images and the symbolic value of which he knows how to charge: "L'humide et chaude nuit rendit coptif des songes Ce grand arbre irrite par les vents eternels." In La Corne du Grand Pardon (1954), L'Ete indien (1957), Canaan d'exil (1962) he has sometimes expressed in classics, sometimes in liberated verses, sometimes in prose, a feeling of exile which is probably less due to the fact he has long lived out of his native Alsace than that born in a Jewish family, he felt everywhere separated from his religious homeland. In Le Poeme du retour (1962), written after he had settled in Israel, he said, in a "militant" tone quite close to Paul Eluard's, his joy at having found the haven he was looking for, and to be able to work for the cause of his brothers; "Apres tant d'abandons, dr misere et de ruines Ce pays est vivant par la grace d'un peuple."
Awards
Vigée is the winner of numerous awards, including the
Works
English Translations
- Flow tide: selected poetry and prose. Translated by Anthony Rudolf. Menard/King's. 1992. ISBN 978-0-9513753-7-2.
- Chants de l'absence. Translated by Anthony Rudolf. Menard. 2007. ISBN 978-1-874320-59-3.
Poetry
- La lutte avec l'ange (1939–1949) Publication 1950. Réédition L'Harmattan 2005 : Collection Poètes des cinq continents
- La corne du grand pardon (1954)
- L'été indien (1957)
- Canaan d'exil (1962)
- Le poème du retour (1962)
- Le passage du vivant
- Dans le creuset du vent
- Danser vers l’abîme
- Dans le silence de l'Aleph, Albin Michel, (1992)
- Les Puits d'eau vive, Albin Michel, (1993)
- Treize inconnus de la Bible, (1996)
- Être poète pour que les hommes vivent (2006)
Bibliography
- Jean Rousselot, Dictionnaire de la poesie francaise contemporaine, 1968, Auge, Guillon, Hollier -Larousse, Mooreau et Cie.-Librairie Larousse, Paris
References
- ^ "Conversation with Claude Vigée, 1972". Archived from the original on 2011-01-17. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
- ^ "Vigée, Claude (Andre Strauss) 1921- | Encyclopedia.com".
- ^ "Le poète alsacien Claude Vigée est décédé". France 3 Grand Est (in French). 3 October 2020. Archived from the original on 4 October 2020.
- ^ "Claude Vigée - Biographie". judaisme.sdv.fr.
External links
- Claude Vigée in the German National Library catalogue
- Biography, bibliography, list of works, poetry, on judaisme.sdv.fr (in French)
- «Claude Vigées Stunde» - Article from webjournal.ch on Nov. 7, 2008 Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine