Jean Grosjean (born in Paris on 21 December 1912, died at

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on 10 April 2006) was a

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, writer and translator.

Overview

After a childhood in the provinces, he became an engineering fitter. He entered the seminary of Saint Sulpice in

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in 1933. After military service in

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he travelled throughout the Middle East, to Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iraq. He was ordained as a priest in 1939, and then mobilized. Imprisoned in 1940, he met André Malraux,

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and Roger Judrin during his captivity in

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and

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, companions who remained close friends for the rest of his life. It was in the "Metamorphoses" by

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, published by Gallimard in 1946, that the first of his works appeared, 'Terre du temps ', a series of poetic notes. Remaining faithful to his publisher, he participated very actively in the life of the Nouvelle Revue francaise with

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and later Georges Lambrichs. In 1950, he left the priesthood, married and bought a property at Avant-lès-Marcilly, in the Aube, where he spent most of his time. He now found himself working mostly on translations of

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and

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, the Koran and the Bible. In 1989 he created, along with

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, the collection "L'Aube des peuples".

Works

Poetry

* Terre du temps (Gallimard, 1946, prix de la Pléiade) * Hypostases (Gallimard, 1950) * Le Livre du Juste (Gallimard, 1952) * Fils de l'Homme (Gallimard, 1954, Prix Max Jacob) * Majestés et Passants (Gallimard, 1956) * Austrasie (Gallimard,1960) * Apocalypse (Gallimard, 1962) * Hiver (Gallimard, 1964) * Élégies (Gallimard, 1967, prix des Critiques) lso available in a translation by Keith Waldrop from paradigm press* La Gloire, précédé de Apocalypse, Hiver et Élégies (Poésie/Gallimard, 1969) * La Lueur des jours (Gallimard, 1991) * Nathanaël (Gallimard, 1996) * Cantilènes (Gallimard, 1998) * Les Vasistas (Gallimard, 2000) * Les Parvis (Gallimard, 2003) * La Rumeur des cortèges (Gallimard, 2005) * Arpèges et paraboles (Gallimard, 2007)

Prose

* Clausewitz (Gallimard, 1972) * Le Messie (Gallimard, 1974) * Les Beaux Jours (Gallimard, 1980) * Élie (Gallimard, 1982) * Darius (Gallimard, 1983) * Pilate (Gallimard, 1983) * Jonas (Gallimard, 1985) * Kleist (Gallimard, 1985) * La Reine de Saba (Gallimard, 1987) * Samson (Gallimard, 1988) * Samuel (Gallimard, 1994) * Adam et Ève (Gallimard, 1997) * Les Parvis (Gallimard, 2003)

Translations

* La Bible. Le Nouveau Testament, éd. et trad. par Jean Grosjean, Michel Léturmy et Paul Gros (Gallimard, coll. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1971) * Le Coran (Ph. Lebaud, 1979) * L'Ironie christique – commentaire de l'Évangile selon Jean (Gallimard, 1991) * Lecture de l'Apocalypse (Gallimard, 1994) * Les Versets de la sagesse (Ph. Lebaud, 1996)

Biography

*Jean Grosjean by Jean-Luc Maxence (Seghers, coll. Poètes d'aujourd'hui, 2005) *Jean Grosjean ou Les Saisond de la foi by Alain Bosquet(Nouvelle Revue Français n°174,1967) *Où passent les anges... by Anne Debeaux(Nouvelle Revue Français n°389,Paris,1985) *L'Entretien des Muses,Paris,Gallimard.1968 by Phillippe Jaccottet.

External links

Portrait de Jean Grosjean

Notes

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, consulted on 1 February 2009.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Grosjean, Jean 1912 births 2006 deaths Writers from Paris French male poets 20th-century French poets 20th-century French translators 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers