Robert Sabatier (17 August 1923 – 28 June 2012) was a French poet and writer.[1] He wrote numerous novels, essays and books of aphorisms and poems. He was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1971, as well as to the Académie Mallarme. He is also the author of Histoire de la poésie française: La poésie du XVIIe siècle
Among his notable works is the autobiographical series of novels "Roman d'Olivier" about growing up in the streets of a poor quarter in Paris during the 1930s. A title from the series, Les Allumettes Suédoises (The Safety Matches, also translated under the title The Match Boy), was adapted for French TV by Jacques Ertaud. According to Kirkus Reviews, the book Les Allumettes Suédoises sold 200,000 copies. Other autobiographical installments include "Olivier 1940" and "Les Trompettes Guerrières". More recent works include Diogène about the Cynic philosopher of ancient Greece.
As a poet, Sabatier was awarded Le Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 1955. A small selection of Sabatier's poems have been published in English translations by the American poet X.J. Kennedy and others in the anthology Modern European Poetry (edited by Willis Barnstone et al., published by Bantam Books, NY, 1966). Kennedy's translations of Sabatier include the poems "Vegetal Body" and the elegiac "Mortal Landscape" where Sabatier wonders
The bird is flown, the monster not yet born where shall we go in this demolished world?".[2]
In an introduction to Sabatier, Barnstone states: "The poet's despair has sharp edges . . . but the bitter violence that strikes at the reader of these poems has its roots in an earlier joy that persists like a dream."[3] Sabatier's poetry is deeply colored by memory and division: "He held the image that he loved so tight/his body itself cast two shadows."[4]
Before his death, Sabatier was writing his memoirs.
Trois sucettes à la menthe, Éditions Albin Michel, Paris (1972)
Les Noisettes sauvages (1974)
Les Fillettes chantantes (1980)
David et Olivier (1986)
Olivier et ses amis (1993)
Olivier 1940 (2003)
Les Trompettes guerrières (2007)
Referencesedit
^"Décès de l'écrivain Robert Sabatier à l'âge de 88 ans" (in French). Leparisien.fr. 28 June 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
^Robert Sabatier, from "Mortal Landscape," translated by X.J. Kennedy, included in Modern European Poetry, edited by Willis Barnstone, et al., Bantam Books, New York, 1966, Library of Congress card catalog number 66-12156), page 86
^Willis Barnstone, et al., Modern European Poetry, Bantam Books, NY, 1966, page 82
^Robert Sabatier, from "Festival of the Moon," translated by Patricia Terry, included in Modern European Poetry, edited by Willis Barnstone, et al., Bantam Books, New York, 1966, page 83
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