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The collaboration between Giuseppe Ungaretti and Jean Lescure. A process of collaborative creation.
Between 1952 and 1954, Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970), famous Italian poet, known for his obscure and enigmatic poetry and Jean Lescure (1912-2005), a young French writer, philosopher and poet, exchanged a series of letters in order to compose a poetic anthology named "The Five Books". This anthology corresponds to the French translation of poems previously published by Ungaretti in Italian. The Jean Lescure Fund of the IMEC in Caen keeps a large quantity of manuscripts containing the preliminary texts of the translations written by Lescure and corrected by Ungaretti. Relying on theoretical and methodological approaches developed in the field of Genetic Criticism and Translation Studies, the research investigates the collaborative process of poetic creation and the respective roles of both authors, both at the level of the interpretation and of the composition of the text.
Date:1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2021
Keywords:ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, LITERARY GENETIC
Disciplines:Literary studies, Theory and methodology of language studies