Western_echoes Benjamin_Fondane

plaque in memory of fondane, @ former home on rue rollin 6

in france, caretaker of documentary enterprises regarding fondane long sernet (voronca s brother-in-law), released part of super flumina babylonis , other unknown texts (published in various issues of cahiers du sud , other journals), while supervising new edition of l honneur des poètes, fondane credited. in 1945, philosopher jean grenier edited first-ever version of le lundi existentiel. fondane reader (comprising l exode) being planned around 1946, , supposed published les Éditions de minuit, contributions poets jean lescure , paul Éluard. baudelaire et l expérience du gouffre published Éditions seghers in 1947, under supervision of jean cassou (second edition 1972; third edition 1973). sernet author of poem À benjamain fondane, déporté ( benjamin fondane, upon deportation ), reportedly dated june 3, 1944. recollections of fondane s activity , friendship victoria ocampo found in ocampo s series testimonios ( testimonies ).

with support culture minister andré malraux, sernet published 1965 bound version of l exode , super flumina..., reconstructed fragmentary manuscripts. on sernet s initiative, le chant du monde record label , comedian Ève griliquez released lp album of public recitations work. other collections of written work published in later years, including Écrits pour le cinéma ( writings cinema , 1984), le féstin de balthazar (1985), le lundi existentiel (1989), , le mal des fantômes (1996). interviews shestov, left poet in ocampo s care, collected in 1982, rencontres avec léon chestov ( meetings lev shestov ). fondane s notes on dada, other documents, saw print in 1996, le voyageur n pas fini de voyager ( traveler isn t done traveling ). following year, fondane scholar monique jutrin discovered , published manuscript speech 1935 congress, l Écrivain devant la révolution. unknown text, screenplay sketch une journée d ivresse ( day of drunkenness ), included editors carassou , petre răileanu in critical edition of 1999.

in western world (including romanian diaspora), there few authors work influenced directly fondane s, among them voronca , david gascoyne. gascoyne, author of i.m. benjamin fondane poem , recollection pieces on friendship, spoke of romanian mentor, decisive , lasting influence on own writings. france home benjamin fondane studies society, organizes annual workshop in peyresq. since 1994, publishes academic review cahiers benjamin fondane, has recovered , published of fondane s correspondence , political texts. in 2006, following fondane society request, square on paris rue rollin renamed in honor of romanian-born writer. 3 years later, on 65th commemoration of fondane s killing, mémorial de la shoah museum hosted special exhibit dedicated life , literary work. in israel, fragment l exode engraved in english , hebrew versions on entrance of yad vashem memorial.

by late 1970s, fondane s romanian work attracting researchers , authors of monographs various other countries, in particular united states (john kenneth hyde, eric freedman etc.) , communist czechoslovakia (libuše valentová). in west germany, fondane s poetic , philosophical contributions in focus 1986, when exiled poet dieter schlesak published translated samples in akzente journal. preceded gascoyne s french-to-english translation attempts fondane, american film editor julian semilian s contribution translator romanian credited having played important part in introducing english-speaking world writings of fondane , various other romanian modernists. first-ever volume of hebrew translations fondane s verse saw print in 2003, support tel aviv university. other international echoes include publication of odile serre s romanian-to-french translations poems.

recognition of fondane s overall contribution rare, noted in 1989 martin stanton: [fondane is] surely underestimated intellectual of 1930s . writing 9 years later, chitrit argued: works [...] important unknown. cioran, in 1986 dedicated portion of exercises in admiration collection deceased friend, mentioned baudelaire et l expérience du gouffre, made memorable study of boredom literary subject, had since found numerous readers. cioran kept fond memory of friend, , recalled not being able pass on rue rollin without experiencing terrible pain . awareness of fondane s philosophy nevertheless judged unsatisfactory scholar moshe idel. speaking in 2007, suggested fondane philosopher remained less familiar jewish studies academics in israel various counterparts in germanic europe.

argentinian director edgardo cozarinsky, inspired in youth fondane s introduction of avant-garde films (preserved in argentine film archives), staged , narrated dramatized version of biography, performed @ villa ocampo. fondane scholar olivier salazar-ferrer authored theatrical adaptation of l exode (premiered france s théâtre de la mouvance company in 2008).