Léon-Paul Fargue en toutes langues

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Fargue and the publication of the issue 23 of the magazine Ludions, dedicated to the translations and reception of the work of the poet and columnist of Paris, the Société des Lecteurs de Léon-Paul Fargue organizes a round table that will bring together contemporary translators as well as specialists of the author.

If the name of Fargue is indissolubly tied to the destiny of the Capital, his work has nevertheless sailed from the years 1920 in different literary places, in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Japan, in Russia, in Turkey, thanks to the poets who translated it, among which Georges Séféris, Wallace Stevens, Vladimir Holan, Cemal Süreya…

René Daumal saw in Fargue a kind of admiral as good man as universal: the work has indeed made beautiful journeys and, like Paris, fluctuat nec mergitur, to the delight of its readers.