Jean-Yves Masson ( fr. Jean-Yves Masson , September 28, 1962 , Lorraine ) - French writer , poet , translator , literary critic , teacher .
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Biography and Creativity
He graduated from École Normale , where he studied philology and philosophy. How the poet made his debut in La Nouvelle Revue française in 1986 . In 1996, he published the novel L'isolement , well received by critics. He taught at the University of Paris-X , then at the Sorbonne , where he heads the Center for Comparative Literature. He leads the German literature series Der Doppelgänger ( Double ) at Verdier Publishing House. In 2009 - 2011 he headed the association House of Writers. Leads a poetry page in Le Magazine littéraire .
Translates from English ( Kipling , Yates , Kathleen Rain , Ted Hughes ), German ( Merike , Kleist , Stift , Hoffmannsthal , Rilke , Stefan Gheorghe , Georg Game , Elsa Lasker-Schuhler , Eden von Horvat , Erica Burkart ), Italian ( Petrarch , Italo Zvevo , Salvatore Quasimodo , Mario Lutsi ) languages.
Selected Works
- Don Juan ou le refus de la dette , essay. Éditions Galilée, 1990 (co-authored with Sarah Kofman )
- Offrandes , poems. Voix d'Encre, 1995
- L'Isolement, a novel. Éditions Verdier, 1996
- Onzains de la nuit et du désir , poems. Cheyne éditeur, 1995 (Roger-Kowalski Lyon Award)
- Poèmes du festin céleste , poems. l'Escampette, 2002
- Le Chemin de ronde, carnets , notebooks. Voix d'encre, 2003
- Hofmannsthal, renoncement et métamorphose , essay. Verdier, 2006
- Ultimes vérités sur la mort du nageur , short stories. Verdier, 2007 (Renaissance Novelty Prize, Belgium )
- Neuvains du sommeil et de la sagesse , poems. Cheyne Éditeur, 2007 ( Max Jacob Prize, Francois Coppe Prize awarded by the French Academy , Rilke Foundation Prize in the canton of Valais , Switzerland )
- The fire at the Weimar Theater / L'Incendie du théâtre de Weimar , novel. Verdier, 2014