Yanette Delétang-Tardif

Yanette Delétang-Tardif
Born Anne Marie Paule Delétang[1]
(1902-06-18)18 June 1902
Roubaix, France
Died 1976
Paris, France
Occupation Poetess, translator, painter, illustrator
Nationality French
Literary movement Rochefort school
Notable awards Mallarmé prize (1942)
Renée Vivien prize (1962)
Years active 1929–1963
Partner Raymond Tardif

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Yanette Delétang-Tardif (Roubaix, 18 June 1902 – Paris, 1976) was a French poetess,[2] translator into French of Spanish[3] and German works,[4] painter and illustrator.[5] She was a very productive and reputed author of poetry,[6] however she appeared sometimes as a restricted poetess.[7]

Biography

Yanette Delétang-Tardif was the daughter of Marie Troupeau and Maurice Delétang, an industrialist.[1] She was the widow of Raymond Tardif,[note 1] by whom she had a son called Jean-Loup.

After her marriage, Yanette Delétang-Tardif had been succeeding to establish herself as a fully-fledged writer with the publishing of her first collections of poems: Éclats in 1929, Générer, a poetic work about her motherhood experience,[9] in 1930 and Vol d'oiseaux in 1931.[10] Those early works testify to the sway of Paul Valéry's rhythmic pattern.[9][11] In her book Confidences des îles written in 1934, she adopted a style revealing the adding influence of Guy Lavaud [note 2].[9] Meantime, she wrote and published in several periodicals, ranked as a recognized poet.[12] In 1935, the monthly L'Année poétique brought out a special issue devoted entirely to her, in which she had her portrait done by Jean de Bosschère.[13]

As a poetess, she was little inclined to Surrealism and had joined the École de Rochefort since the poet Jean Bouhier created this poetic movement in 1941.[14] Even though she had become the only female member of that talented group of poets, Yanette Delétang-Tardif remained free and defended personal conceptions of poetry, such as the benevolent welcome of Stéphane Mallarmé's poems, very dissimilar from the Rochefort school's poetic ideal.

In 1944 she was the first who wrote the story of the death and martyrdom of Max Jacob with whom she was friend.[15]

At that time, the German poets of the romantic era and Gérard de Nerval's Chimères belonged to her beloved literatures, which had played a part in the development of her works. She was especially interested in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, of whom she gave a renowned French translation of the poetical works — together with Maurice Betz —[16] in 1946. In 1949 she collaborated with Paul Arnold on the French translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's complete poetical works.[4] Though never published in her lifetime, she also created a really fine translation of Nachtwachen von Bonaventura,[note 3] reflecting her interest in Romanticism through a masterpiece of German literature.[17]

Delétang-Tardif's writing was not confined to poetry nor translated works and, following her taste, she wrote novels and completed critical works.

She was close to Jean Cocteau,[2][18] who she first met in 1942. At her particular request then, he drew her portrait, once reproduced in his war journal, and made it a second time in 1943.[19] Like the accomplished artist she admired, Yanette Delétang-Tardif formed a passion for circus.[20][21]

She was awarded the Mallarmé prize to honour her lifetime achievement in 1942,[5][22] and the recipient of the Renée Vivien prize for women poets in 1962.[23]

Works

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ Raymond Tardif was the Minister's chief of staff for Pierre-Étienne Flandin.[8]
  2. ↑ Guy Lavaud (1883 - 1958) was a French Symbolist poet whose style was characterized by conciseness and clarity.
  3. ↑ Nightwatches of Bonaventura

References

  1. 1 2 Lafitte, Jacques; Taylor, Stephen (1977). Qui est qui en France 1977–1978 [Who's who in France 1977–1978] (in French). Levallois-Perret, F: Editions Jacques Lafitte. p. 539. ISBN 2857840136. Retrieved 2015-10-14. DELÉTANG TARDIF Yanette (Anne, Marie, Paule dite). Femme de lettres. Née le 18 juin 1902 à Roubaix (Nord). Fille de Maurice Delétang, Industriel, et de Mme, née Marie Troupeau. Veuve de Raymond Tardif (1 enf. : Jean-Loup).
  2. 1 2 de Ayala, Roselyne; Guéno, Jean-Pierre (1 November 1999). Illustrated letters: artists and writers correspond. Translated by Goodman, John. New York (New York), USA: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA). ISBN 978-0-8109-0653-2. Retrieved 2015-10-14. The figure of Orphens accompanied Cocteau throughout the course of his life and work. thus it was only natural that he should charge this mythological hero. his double. with conveying news to his friend. the poet Yanette Deletang-Tardif.
  3. ↑ Christ, Yvan (February 1962). "Enrique LAFUENTE FERRARI : Goya — l'Art roman en France" [Enrique LAFUENTE FERRARI: Goya — Romanesque Art in France]. La Table Ronde (in French) (Paris, F: Société d'éditions et de publications artistiques et littéraires - S.E.P.A.L.) (169): 135. ISSN 0980-4501. OCLC 320230615. Retrieved 2016-02-10. Le texte espagnol de la longue et érudite introduction a été traduit par Mme Yanette Delétang-Tardif.
  4. 1 2 Sabatier, Robert (10 February 1982). La Poésie du Vingtième Siècle [French Poetry of the Twentieth Century]. Histoire de la poésie française (in French). 1. Tradition et Évolution. Paris, F: Albin Michel. p. 165. ISBN 9782226013958. Retrieved 2016-02-10. Elle traduisit les Poésies de Goethe avec Maurice Betz et les Poésies complètes de Nietzsche avec Paul Arnold.
  5. 1 2 Thyssens, Henri Thyssens, ed. (2005). "Deletang-Tardif, Yanette. Tenter de vivre. Poèmes". Robert Denoël, éditeur. Fiches bibliographiques. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
  6. ↑ Douglas, Kenneth, ed. (1957). Contemporary art. Yale French studies. New Haven (Connecticut), USA: Yale University Press. p. 127. OCLC 5189961. Retrieved 2015-10-17. …and Yanette Deletang-Tardif, one of the better known and more prolific women-poets.
  7. ↑ Covarrubias, Miguel (1 January 1997). Papelería en Trámite [Papers in Process] (in Spanish). México, MX: Ediciones Castillo, S.A. de C.V. ISBN 978-968-7415-56-7. Retrieved 2015-10-17. Yanette Delétang-Tardif me intrigó desde su casi total ocultamiento, aunque figura como la única excepción femenina en el recuento de la Poesía francesa contemporánea de Manuel Álvarez Ortega.
  8. ↑ Blanchard, Maurice (17 October 1994). Peuchmaurd, Pierre, ed. Danser sur la corde [Dance on a rope] (in French). Journal 1942 – 1946. Toulouse, F: L'Éther Vague. p. 83. ISBN 2-904-620-52-4. Retrieved 2015-10-21. Il était chef de cabinet du ministre Flandin
  9. 1 2 3 Burnham Cooper, Clarissa (1943). Women poets of the twentieth century in France: a critical bibliography. New York (New York), USA: King's Crown Press. p. 52. OCLC 3308699. Retrieved 2015-10-17. Her Confidences des îles (1934), besides revealing the influence of Valéry, shows that of Guy Lavaud […] She even attempts to interpret her experience of maternity in the detached, cerebral style invented by Valery […] in the book Generer…
  10. ↑ Benkov, Edith J. (28 February 1991). "Yanette Deletang-Tardif". In Wilson, Katharina M. An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Garland reference library of the humanities. Volume one A–K. London, UK: Taylor & Francis. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-8240-8547-6. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
  11. ↑ Stanton, Domna C. (1986). French Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology. The Defiant Muse. New York (New York), USA: Feminist Press at CUNY. p. 200. ISBN 978-0935312522. Retrieved 2015-10-14. The first published works of Yanette Delétang-Tardif, Éclats (1929) and Générer (1930), from which the selection in this volume is taken, reveal the influence of Valéry's prosody, as does her Chants royaux…
  12. ↑ Winckler, Lutz, ed. (1995). Unter der "Coupole": Die Paris-Feuilletons Hermann Wendels 1933–1936 [Under the "Coupole": Wendel, Hermann Paris-Feuilleton 1933–1936]. Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur (in German) 47. Berlin, D: Verlag Walter de Gruyter. p. 236. ISBN 978-3484350472. Retrieved 2015-10-17. Ihre vier Gedichtbände, "Eclats", "Generer", "Vol des Oiseaux" und "Confidences des Iles", von denen die drei ersten bei Aristide Quillet, Paris, erschienen sind, sichern Yanette Deletang-Tardif einen hervorragenden Platz in den Reihen der modersten Frauendichtung, nein, der modersten Dichtung überhaupt.
  13. ↑ Bataillard, Aloys, ed. (July 1935). "Yanette Deletang-Tardif". L'Année poétique (in French) (Paris, F: Librairie des Trois Magots) (12): 1–16.
  14. ↑ Chabod, France (18 March 2010). "Quand les poètes de Rochefort étaient des femmes" [When poets of Rochefort were women]. BUA (in French). Service Commun de la Documentation de l'Université d'Angers. Retrieved 2015-10-15. Fondé en 1941 par Jean Bouhier et le peintre Pierre Penon, ce groupe rallia […] Yanette Delétang-Tardif […] et une soixantaine d'autres par la suite.
  15. ↑ Delétang-Tardif, Yanette (July–October 1944). Seghers, Pierre, ed. "La mort d'un poète" [The death of a poet]. Poésie (in French) (Paris, F) (20): 14–16.
  16. ↑ Schneider, Marcel (July 1950). "Les Lettres Allemandes : Thomas Mann et Hermann Hesse" [German letters: Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse]. La Table Ronde (in French) (Paris, F: Société d'éditions et de publications artistiques et littéraires - S.E.P.A.L.) (31): 153. ISSN 0980-4501. OCLC 320230615. Retrieved 2016-02-10. Rien n'est plus dévotement pur que les brefs dictons en vers, si heureusement traduits par Maurice Betz et Yanette Delétang-Tardif
  17. ↑ Brion, Marcel (2000). Suite fantastique [Fantastic suite]. Cahiers Marcel Brion (in French) 2–3. Paris, F: Klincksieck. p. 222. ISBN 978-2-252-03272-5. Retrieved 2016-02-11. […] l'énigmatique Bonaventura dont les Veillées - ce chef-d'oeuvre du Romantisme ! - n'ont pas encore trouvé d'éditeur en France pour l'excellente traduction qu'en a faite Yanette Delétang-Tardif […]
  18. ↑ Cocteau, Jean (26 September 1989). Chanel, Pierre, ed. Le Passé défini : Journal [Past Tense: The Cocteau Diaries] (in French). Tome III. Paris, F: Gallimard. p. 89. ISBN 978-2-0707-1575-6. Retrieved 2015-10-14. Et revenant l'autre jour rue de Montpensier, avec madame Delétang-Tardif, je retrouvais là l'histoire de mes souffrances…
  19. ↑ Brissonneau, Hôtel Drouot (13 December 2011). Ancienne collection Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Cocteau, collection d'un amateur, autographes, dessins, peintres, beaux livres du XXe siècle. [Former collection of Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Cocteau, amateur's collection, autographs, drawings, painters, rare books of the 20th century.] (pdf) (in French). Paris, F: Brissonneau. pp. 20–22. OCLC 707633015. Retrieved 2012-10-14. Ce beau portrait, daté de 1943, est très proche de celui de 1942, reproduit dans le Journal de guerre de Cocteau (p. 42).
  20. ↑ Jando, Dominique. "Rose Gold". Circopedia. Brooklyn (New York), USA: Big Apple Circus. Retrieved 2016-02-13. In September 1945, in Minerve, Yanette Delétang-Tardif had commented thus Rose’s debut with her solo trapeze act at Cirque Medrano: “What is so moving about the debut of this trapezist is that, right away, she has reached perfection.”
  21. ↑ Thétard, Henry (15 December 1952). Chaumeix, André, ed. "Le Cirque : Son public - Ses spectacles - Ses acteurs" [Circus: Public - Shows - Actors]. Revue des deux Mondes (in French) (Paris, F: Société de la Revue des deux Mondes) (24): 687. ISSN 0035-1962. OCLC 476419311. Retrieved 2016-02-13. Dans un « plaidoyer pour le cirque » qu'elle publia voici cinq ou six ans, Mme Yanette Delétang-Tardif écrivait : « Il y a, dans la vie d'un homme, un trésor que nul pouvoir, nulle force au monde ne peuvent lui arracher : ses souvenirs d'enfance. […]
  22. ↑ Bufkin, E. C., ed. (1980). Foreign Literary Prizes, Romance and Germanic Languages. New York (New York), USA: R. R. Bowker Company. p. 80. OCLC 5751182. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
  23. ↑ Miron, Grindea, ed. (1962). "Combat with the Amazon of letters". ADAM International Review (London, UK) 29 (299): 5–24. Retrieved 2015-10-17. As to the moving tributes by Yanette Deletang-Tardif, Anne-Marie Kegels and Lucienne Desnoues they represent the admiration of three of the more interesting laureates of the Prix Renee Vivien which, since 1949, the Amazon has awarded to women poets writing in French.
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