Pierre Nepveu

Histoire

Язык: французский

Histoire

Des mots perdus traversaient ma chambre.
Je prenais pour âme le tournant d'une saison.
(Parfois les ruisseaux brûlent au fond du sommeil,
et toute la vie est une forêt sans feuilles).
Il y eut des histoires, là-bas.
Cloisons levées entre les mondes.
Des automnes de cierges, des printemps de velours.
On chanta des hymnes sous les chênes
au bord de vieux fleuves aux noms démodés.
Des enfants crurent qu'on changeait de siècle, déjà.
Et leurs kyrielles de chiens, et les voisins fous.
Une race dans chaque rue, chaque maison,
avec leurs langues mourantes qui pavoisaient.
O musique! Nous aurions pu les apprendre
en tendant l'oreille et le cœur,
au-delà des vitres et du vent devenu
notre frère dans l'émoi, dans l'exercice
d'effleurer pour mieux vivre.

Pierre Nepveu

* 16.09.1946, Montreal, Quebec, Канада
Место жительства: Montreal, Quebec, Канада

Pierre Nepveu, born in Montreal in 1946, Pierre Nepveu is a poet, essayist and novelist, as well as a full-time professor in the Department of French Language and Literature at the Université de Montréal. He has directed the Center for Quebec Studies at that institution, as well as the review Études françaises. He has also been a member of the editorial board and co-director of the magazine Spirale.

Nepveu is the author of several essays about Quebec literature: Les mots à l’écoute (1979, republished in 2004); L’écologie du réel (1988); Intérieurs du nouveau monde: Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques (1998); and Lectures des lieux (2004). Slated for fall 2008 is a new collection of critical essays, La poésie immédiate: Chroniques 1985-2005 with Nota Bene publishers.

Among his books of poetry, there is Épisodes (1977), Mahler et autres matières (1983), Romans-fleuves (1997) and Lignes aériennes (2002). A retrospective of his poetic work was published with Hexagone in 2006 entitled Le sens du soleil: Poèmes 1969-2002. He also published two novels: L’Hiver de Mira Christophe and Des mondes peu habités (1992).

Pierre Nepveu is the author of numerous articles and critical pieces about Quebec literature, especially in magazines like Lettres québécoises and Spirale, and he is also the co-author of an anthology, La poésie québécoise des origines à nos jours with Laurent Mailhot; a new updated edition will come out in mid-November of 2008.

Since 2001, working with Marie-Andrée Beaudet, Pierre Nepveu has been preparing an edition of Gaston Miron’s scattered poems. Two volumes – Poèmes épars and Un long chemin: Proses 1953-1994 – have appeared so far. As well, Nepveu is working on a biography of the poet and the publisher.

Nepveu’s books have won several major awards, including the 'Prix Victor-Barbeau from the Académie des lettres du Québec' and the 'Prix Canada-Suisse'. In 2003, his collection Lignes aériennes won the 'Grand Prix du Festival international de poésie de Trois-Rivières' as well as the 'Governor-General’s Award', an honor he had already won for his collection Romans-fleuves and his book of essays Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde. In 2005, he won the 'Prix Athanase-David', given by the Quebec government, for the body of his work.

His current research, besides his work on Gaston Miron, is concerned with Montreal Jewish literature and the French-language literatures of the Americas. Nepveu is a member of the Académie des lettres du Québec and the Union des écrivains québécois.

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