Charles Reznikoff

Charles Reznikoff is a writer American born the August 31st 1894 with Brooklyn, died in New York the July 22nd 1976.

Biography

Charles Reznikoff, wire of Jewish emigrants of Russia, after studies of journalism in Missouri and right to New York, becomes sales agent for his parents. His first report/ratio with the edition is in right, since 1918, he becomes Co-editor of a legal encyclopedia specialized. In parallel, it starts to write at the same time poetry and for the theater.

The writer

Whereas it starts to write since 1918, the first anthology of its texts is published in 1962, By the Waters off Manhattan . And it is into 1965 that its principal work Testimony leaves: The Units-States 1885-1890 . This work is built starting from files of courts of the end of the XIXème century. This work precisely characterizes what is the poetic objectivism. Such as he explains it in a maintenance with the Revue Europe in 1977: " In Testimony, the protagonists of which I use the remarks testify all to what they really lived. (...) What me I wanted to make, it is by carrying out a choice, to carry out an assembly, by rythmant the words which they employed, and to thus create a state of heart or a sentiment".

In 1975, it publishes Holocauste, which takes again the same process, but this time starting from the files of the Procès of the criminals in front of the Military Tribunal of Nuremberg .

It belongs to the poets who in the Thirties in the United States, and under the sponsorship of William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, constituted the movement “Objectiviste” with Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi and Basil Bunting.

Works

; English language
  • In Memoriam: 1933 , 1934
  • Separate Way , 1936
  • Going to and fro and Walking up and down , 1941
  • Inscriptions: 1944-1956 , 1959
  • By the Toilets off Manhattan , selected pours, 1962
  • Testimony: The Units-States 1885-1890 , 1965
  • Recitative , 1968
  • By the Well off Living room and Seeing and the Fifth Book off the Maccabees , 1969
  • By the Well off Living room and Seeing: New and Selected Poems 1918-1973 , 1974
  • Holocaust , 1975

; French language

  • Testimony, the United States, 1885-1890 (Récitatif), translation of Jacques Roubaud, Hatchet-POL., 1981, republication in a new translation of Marc Cholodenko, to appear at POL.
  • the Musician , novel, POL., 1986
  • Holocaust , followed of in discussion with Charles Reznikoff, Pretext Editor, 2007 translation Auxeméry

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