Translating German Poetry in French during the Occupation (1940-44): the Anthology of R. Lasne and G. Rabuse (1943)
How should an anthology of texts written in the language of the occupier be assembled in the occupied country? According to which literary criteria? For which readers?
This presentation will address The Bilingual Anthology of German Poetry. From its beginnings until the present by R. Lasne and G. Rabuse, published in two volumes in Paris by Stock in 1943 with a preface by Karl Epting (director of the German Institute of Paris and friend of Céline), offering a valuable account of Franco-German literary relations during the Occupation. The 1943 edition will also be examined in relation to the later 1967 “version” of this same anthology that had been meticulously expurgated.
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