Léon-Paul Fargue en toutes langues

Léon-Paul Fargue en toutes langues: the international aura of the "Piéton de Paris"

To mark the 150th anniversary of Fargue's birth and the publication of issue no. 23 of the journal Ludions, devoted to the translations and reception of the work of the poet and chronicler of Paris, the Société des Lecteurs de Léon-Paul Fargue is hosting a round table bringing together contemporary translators and specialists of the author.

While the name of Fargue is inextricably moored to the destiny of the capital, his work has nonetheless voyaged since the 1920s to a range of literary shores: in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Japan, Russia and Turkey, thanks to the poets who translated it, among them Georges Séféris, Wallace Stevens, Vladimir Holan, Cemal Süreya…

René Daumal saw in Fargue a kind of admiral as good-natured as he was universal: the work has, indeed, made fine voyages and, like Paris, fluctuat nec mergitur, to the great delight of its readers.