The Council of the Humanities is pleased to co-sponsor Rene Char: Poetry and War, a colloquium at Princeton University.
Rene Char has long been recognized as one of France’s greatest modern poets, whose prolific career began with Surrealism and ended only with his death in 1988. On February 27-28, Princeton University will host a series of academic talks, a film, and readings of Char’s work by poets, critics, and students. This colloquium, open to the public, will address philosophical, historical and aesthetic issues raised particularly through Char’s texts from 1938-1947. It will include remarks by filmmaker Jerome Prieur and several scholars, a conversation with Marie-Claude Char, Rene Char’s widow and editor of numerous books on his poetry, as well as a set of readings and translations by well-known poets, translators and members of Princeton’s French theater company, L’Avant-Scene.
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Cosponsored by the Dean of the Faculty, Department of Comparative Literature, English Department, Department of French & Italian, the Council on the Humanities, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, University Center for Human Values, and Whitman College.
