Victor Hountondji

Words of a poet

Collection of texts, articles and interviewsOriginal drawing by Victor Hountondji

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of major texts opens with: "Contemporary Aesthetics: romantic and neo-surrealist; from prose poem to poetic prose," a contribution by Victor M. HOUNTONDJI to the works of the 7th World Congress of Poets of Marrakech, MOROCCO (14-20 October 1984), which took place under the Presidency of Léopold Sédar SENGHOR, former President of Senegal, and the High-Patronage of King HASSAN II, with the participation of eminent international poets, such as the Argentine Jorge Luis BORGES, the Indian KRISHNA SRINIVAS, and others still It is followed by an exclusive interview with Mr. Mohamed El AMINE, a "Letter to a Poet-President or The Major Elegies of Leopold Sedar Senghor: a question of methodology", "Our detractors have fallen into sophistry: an exclusive interview with Leopold Sedar Senghor", a text "In Memory of François MITTERRAND", etc. In his Foreword, Victor HOUNTONDJI summarizes this work with these words: "It remains for me to say that written or collected by me, or written on me, these words are words which are dear to me and which I enjoy, according to the word of Rainer-Maria RILKE, as a natural possession, me the poet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 68
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 119g
• ISBN-13: 9786203764192
• ISBN-10: 6203764191
• Artikelnr.: 62295905

Autorenporträt

Nacido el 22/09/1953 en Sakété, Benín, antiguo profesor de lengua y literatura francesas (Universidad de Calabar, Nigeria), Victor M. HOUNTONDJI es director de Paroles Éclatées, EURL, una empresa de traducción, consultoría, servicios profesionales y edición. Escritor y poeta, es doctor honoris causa (Litt. D., Academia Mundial de las Artes y la Cultura).