Serge Venturini
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Serge Venturini is a French
poet
. Poet of devenir ("destiny"), several metamorphoses run through his poetry. From his poetics of human destiny, through post-human and transhuman
poetics, he came to the transvisible thematic.
since 1996, when he came back to France
after having lived in Lebanon
(1979-1981) and Morocco
(1981-1984). After a brief come back to France (1984-1987), he lived in Armenia
(1987-1990) and in Poland
(1990-1996), on temporary assignment for the French Foreign Affairs Ministry.
His mother (born in Figline di Prato
) worked sometimes as dressmaker, sometimes as cleaning lady, and his father (born in Rutali
) was a cartographic designer at the Institut Géographique National during the week, and, with his brother Jean, guitarist and singer at feast days in Corsican receptions during the fifties in Paris
. He spent his childhood not far from the Musée Rodin
in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. From 1955 till 1979, he stayed in 3 rue Rousselet. He was introduced to Heraclitus
, Empedocles
, Arthur Rimbaud
and Friedrich Nietzsche
. He began to write when he was fifteen.
His poésie du devenir ("poetry of destiny"), lightning and crystal-clear according to Geneviève Clancy who revealed him, is influenced by Pierre Reverdy
and even more by René Char
, and is at the junction of poetry and prose, of politics and philosophy. It was recognised as such by Yves Bonnefoy
, André du Bouchet
, Abdellatif Laabi
and Laurent Terzieff
.
His books deal with the "fight of the being". Air, earth, water and most of all fire have a peculiar importance in his works. The Resistance of poetry lies at the heart of his daily fights in favour of a rebellious speech, freer and freer, more and more opened up. He elaborates upon his Poétique du devenir ("poetics of destiny") in his premier livre d'Éclats (1976-1999) with a questioning of human destiny.
Le livre II d'Éclats (2000-2007) carries on with this reflexion and questions the post-human destiny. Le livre III has been published in 2009 and deals with the transhuman destiny. At the end of 2007, he elaborates upon a theory according to which there would be, between the visible and the invisible, a passage, in a flash, a brief vision: the "transvisible". He wrote:
according to which there is a passage between the visible
and the invisible
world which lasts no longer than a flash of lightning, no longer than a vision.
To fully understand this theory that is still in the making, it is necessary to refer to other key notions of the transvisible; we still haven’t found the way out of Plato’s cave
and we still mistake the appearance of reality for reality itself, in a world trapped in the fallacies of image
s and when the absence of such images is accepted as a token of un-reality, of untruth and consequently of falsehood, a world in which reality
itself has become fiction
; in "a world truly turned upside down", as Guy Debord
once said, the virtual has become a reality.
The first of these notions is the posthuman which witnessed the death of the old Humanist movement
that was born out of the Italian Renaissance
. Beyond this notion, as in a second step, one could refer to the transhuman as the necessary move to go beyond the notion we have just mentioned. Dante’s
transumanar remains a major reference in the issue. "Transhumaner" would mean "to go beyond what is human", "beyond Good and Evil" as Nietzsche
once said.
On a symbolical level, the transvisible could be epitomized by an arrow shot from the visible and that would vanish in the invisible. As the symbol of a philosophy of destiny and of evolution, the transvisible is the moment between what is already no more and what is yet to come, a moment with dreamlike qualities, when the mind itself passes from day-time subconscious to evening slumber and sometimes premonitory dream. According to Henri Bergson
, it is the first function of consciousness to hold onto what is no more in order to look into the future.
Water too would seem to be an excellent metaphor
between the liquid word (the visible) and vapour (the invisible). So would the wind when you don’t even notice it rustling the leaves or conversely, when nothing seems to move, when it comes and sweeps across your face like a ray of light. Or quite differently, money now that the banking rules have disappeared and that monetary value has become more and more immaterial, if not totally virtual and transvisible
This is why it is so difficult to explain how quick the passage is between what is visible for the eye and the mind and what is not, as is revealed by the notorious fade in-fade out effect
used in the movies when one picture succeeds another: as one picture gradually vanishes, the following one gets clearer and clearer. And the same goes for music
when one theme succeeds another.
When science
and art
intertwine, the Florentine engineer Maurizio Seracini
, provides another fine example. As a specialist in reflectography and infra-red techniques, he pioneered the restoration of the works of Leonardo da Vinci
and was able to use the latest technology to uncover The Batlle of Anghiari
and to reveal one of the first drawings of the master from under the current unfinished The Adoration of the Magi
. To see another reality under the appearance of representation is to be confronted to the transvisible. To see beyond our senses is a problem Pablo Picasso
had already pointed out when he declared: "it would be necessary to reveal the paintings beneath the actual painting".
Therefore, between being and non-being, in a world in which communication is increasingly being dematerialised as time goes by, the supporters of rationality see in all this nothing more than just an expression of what is not determined, improbable or unmentionable, thereby refusing to get involved in the whole issue. All that is not clearly expressed doesn’t hold water and is consequently deemed irrelevant.
However, there were people like Merleau-Ponty
, who at one time happened to be passionate about the links between the visible and the invisible. As a philosopher, Merleau-Ponty even discovered in it some sort of "profondeur charnelle". Poets too have also attempted to meet the transvisible in the flesh. What is void, empty and unthinkable offers countless possibilities in this respect. To see, to pass from what is opaque to what is transparent is required before reaching the transparency of the invisible. The openness of such worlds should also be emphasised for people with too rational a mind have chosen not to trouble themselves with such interactions. As media of transvisibility, poets act as torch-bearers in charge with the fire of eloquence; they are walkers between worlds. As we cross from the visible to the invisible, the transvisible transfigures Time itself.
) Éclats : d'une poétique du devenir humain, 1976-1999, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2000 (dedicated to Paul Celan
)
} Annie Pilibossian, in Bulletin de l'ACAM, n°66 (January–March 2007), Val-de-Marne
} Paul Van Melle, "Ressusciter les auteurs méconnus", in Bulletin, n°208 (September 2006), La Hulpe
} Jean-Baptiste Para, "Historiens de l'Antiquité", in Europe, n° 945-946 (January–February 2008), p. 345-346 Éclats d’une poétique du devenir posthumain, 2000-2007 (Livre II), L’Harmattan, Paris, 2007 (dedicated to Lucie Aubrac
) ISBN 978-2-296-03301-6
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
. Poet of devenir ("destiny"), several metamorphoses run through his poetry. From his poetics of human destiny, through post-human and transhuman
Transhuman
Transhuman or trans-human is a term that has been defined and redefined many times in history. In its contemporary usage, “transhuman” refers to an intermediary form between the human and the hypothetical posthuman.-History of hypotheses:...
poetics, he came to the transvisible thematic.
Biography
Serge Venturini is a poet and a French teacher in Val-d'OiseVal-d'Oise
Val-d'Oise is a French department, created in 1968 after the split of the Seine-et-Oise department and located in the Île-de-France region. In local slang, it is known as "quatre-vingt quinze" or "neuf cinq"...
since 1996, when he came back to France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
after having lived in Lebanon
Lebanon
Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
(1979-1981) and Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
(1981-1984). After a brief come back to France (1984-1987), he lived in Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
(1987-1990) and in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
(1990-1996), on temporary assignment for the French Foreign Affairs Ministry.
His mother (born in Figline di Prato
Prato
Prato is a city and comune in Tuscany, Italy, the capital of the Province of Prato. The city is situated at the foot of Monte Retaia , the last peak in the Calvana chain. The lowest altitude in the comune is 32 m, near the Cascine di Tavola, and the highest is the peak of Monte Cantagrillo...
) worked sometimes as dressmaker, sometimes as cleaning lady, and his father (born in Rutali
Rutali
Rutali is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.-Population:-References:*...
) was a cartographic designer at the Institut Géographique National during the week, and, with his brother Jean, guitarist and singer at feast days in Corsican receptions during the fifties in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. He spent his childhood not far from the Musée Rodin
Musée Rodin
The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919 in the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds. It displays works by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin....
in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. From 1955 till 1979, he stayed in 3 rue Rousselet. He was introduced to Heraclitus
Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom...
, Empedocles
Empedocles
Empedocles was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for being the originator of the cosmogenic theory of the four Classical elements...
, Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...
and Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
. He began to write when he was fifteen.
His poésie du devenir ("poetry of destiny"), lightning and crystal-clear according to Geneviève Clancy who revealed him, is influenced by Pierre Reverdy
Pierre Reverdy
Pierre Reverdy was a French poet associated with surrealism and cubism.Pierre Reverdy was born in Narbonne and grew up near the Montagne Noire in his father's house. Reverdy came from a family of sculptors. His father taught him to read and write. He studied at Toulouse and Narbonne.Reverdy...
and even more by René Char
René Char
René Char was a 20th century French poet.-Biography:Char was born in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse department of France, the youngest of four children of Emile Char and Marie-Therese Rouget, where his father was mayor and managing director of the Vaucluse plasterworks...
, and is at the junction of poetry and prose, of politics and philosophy. It was recognised as such by Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy is a French poet and essayist. Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, the son of a railroad worker and a teacher....
, André du Bouchet
André du Bouchet
André du Bouchet was a French poet.- Biography :Born in Paris, he lived in France until 1941, when his family left occupied Europe for the United States. He studied at Amherst College and then at Harvard University . After teaching for a year, he returned to France...
, Abdellatif Laabi
Abdellatif Laabi
Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco.Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Souffles, an important literary review in 1966...
and Laurent Terzieff
Laurent Terzieff
Laurent Terzieff was a French actor.- Biography :Laurent Terzieff was the son of a plastician and of Jean Terzieff, a Russian sculptor who emigrated to France during the First World War. The original surname of his family was Čemerzin.The spectacle of the bombardments had a dramatic effect on...
.
His books deal with the "fight of the being". Air, earth, water and most of all fire have a peculiar importance in his works. The Resistance of poetry lies at the heart of his daily fights in favour of a rebellious speech, freer and freer, more and more opened up. He elaborates upon his Poétique du devenir ("poetics of destiny") in his premier livre d'Éclats (1976-1999) with a questioning of human destiny.
Le livre II d'Éclats (2000-2007) carries on with this reflexion and questions the post-human destiny. Le livre III has been published in 2009 and deals with the transhuman destiny. At the end of 2007, he elaborates upon a theory according to which there would be, between the visible and the invisible, a passage, in a flash, a brief vision: the "transvisible". He wrote:
The transvisible
The transvisible is a theoryTheory
The English word theory was derived from a technical term in Ancient Greek philosophy. The word theoria, , meant "a looking at, viewing, beholding", and referring to contemplation or speculation, as opposed to action...
according to which there is a passage between the visible
Visible spectrum
The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called visible light or simply light. A typical human eye will respond to wavelengths from about 390 to 750 nm. In terms of...
and the invisible
Invisibility
Invisibility is the state of an object that cannot be seen. An object in this state is said to be invisible . The term is usually used as a fantasy/science fiction term, where objects are literally made unseeable by magical or technological means; however, its effects can also be seen in the real...
world which lasts no longer than a flash of lightning, no longer than a vision.
To fully understand this theory that is still in the making, it is necessary to refer to other key notions of the transvisible; we still haven’t found the way out of Plato’s cave
Allegory of the cave
The Allegory of the Cave—also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato's Cave, or the Parable of the Cave—is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate "our nature in its education and want of education"...
and we still mistake the appearance of reality for reality itself, in a world trapped in the fallacies of image
Image
An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.-Characteristics:...
s and when the absence of such images is accepted as a token of un-reality, of untruth and consequently of falsehood, a world in which reality
Reality
In philosophy, reality is the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined. In a wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible...
itself has become fiction
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
; in "a world truly turned upside down", as Guy Debord
Guy Debord
Guy Ernest Debord was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International . He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.-Early Life:Guy Debord was born in Paris in 1931...
once said, the virtual has become a reality.
The first of these notions is the posthuman which witnessed the death of the old Humanist movement
Humanism
Humanism is an approach in study, philosophy, world view or practice that focuses on human values and concerns. In philosophy and social science, humanism is a perspective which affirms some notion of human nature, and is contrasted with anti-humanism....
that was born out of the Italian Renaissance
Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe...
. Beyond this notion, as in a second step, one could refer to the transhuman as the necessary move to go beyond the notion we have just mentioned. Dante’s
Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, mononymously referred to as Dante , was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia ...
transumanar remains a major reference in the issue. "Transhumaner" would mean "to go beyond what is human", "beyond Good and Evil" as Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
once said.
On a symbolical level, the transvisible could be epitomized by an arrow shot from the visible and that would vanish in the invisible. As the symbol of a philosophy of destiny and of evolution, the transvisible is the moment between what is already no more and what is yet to come, a moment with dreamlike qualities, when the mind itself passes from day-time subconscious to evening slumber and sometimes premonitory dream. According to Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
Henri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize...
, it is the first function of consciousness to hold onto what is no more in order to look into the future.
Water too would seem to be an excellent metaphor
Metaphor
A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels." Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via...
between the liquid word (the visible) and vapour (the invisible). So would the wind when you don’t even notice it rustling the leaves or conversely, when nothing seems to move, when it comes and sweeps across your face like a ray of light. Or quite differently, money now that the banking rules have disappeared and that monetary value has become more and more immaterial, if not totally virtual and transvisible
This is why it is so difficult to explain how quick the passage is between what is visible for the eye and the mind and what is not, as is revealed by the notorious fade in-fade out effect
Dissolve (filmmaking)
In the post-production process of film editing and video editing, a dissolve is a gradual transition from one image to another. The terms fade-out and fade-in and are used to describe a transition to and from a blank image. This is in contrast to a cut where there is no such transition. A dissolve...
used in the movies when one picture succeeds another: as one picture gradually vanishes, the following one gets clearer and clearer. And the same goes for music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
when one theme succeeds another.
When science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
intertwine, the Florentine engineer Maurizio Seracini
Maurizio Seracini
Maurizio Seracini is a diagnostician of Italian art. A '73 UCSD Alumnus, graduated in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego , he founded, in 1977, the first company in Italy for diagnostic and non-destructive analyses on art and architecture, the Editech srl, Diagnostic Center...
, provides another fine example. As a specialist in reflectography and infra-red techniques, he pioneered the restoration of the works of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
and was able to use the latest technology to uncover The Batlle of Anghiari
The Battle of Anghiari (painting)
The Battle of Anghiari is a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci at times referred to as "The Lost Leonardo", which some commentators believe to be still hidden beneath later frescoes in the Hall of Five Hundred in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence...
and to reveal one of the first drawings of the master from under the current unfinished The Adoration of the Magi
Adoration of the Magi (Leonardo)
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. To see another reality under the appearance of representation is to be confronted to the transvisible. To see beyond our senses is a problem Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
had already pointed out when he declared: "it would be necessary to reveal the paintings beneath the actual painting".
Therefore, between being and non-being, in a world in which communication is increasingly being dematerialised as time goes by, the supporters of rationality see in all this nothing more than just an expression of what is not determined, improbable or unmentionable, thereby refusing to get involved in the whole issue. All that is not clearly expressed doesn’t hold water and is consequently deemed irrelevant.
However, there were people like Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir...
, who at one time happened to be passionate about the links between the visible and the invisible. As a philosopher, Merleau-Ponty even discovered in it some sort of "profondeur charnelle". Poets too have also attempted to meet the transvisible in the flesh. What is void, empty and unthinkable offers countless possibilities in this respect. To see, to pass from what is opaque to what is transparent is required before reaching the transparency of the invisible. The openness of such worlds should also be emphasised for people with too rational a mind have chosen not to trouble themselves with such interactions. As media of transvisibility, poets act as torch-bearers in charge with the fire of eloquence; they are walkers between worlds. As we cross from the visible to the invisible, the transvisible transfigures Time itself.
Works
D'aurorales clartés : Choix de poèmes réunis par l'auteur, 1971-1995, Gutenberg XXIe siècle, Paris , 2000 (dedicated to Osip MandelstamOsip Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets...
) Éclats : d'une poétique du devenir humain, 1976-1999, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2000 (dedicated to Paul Celan
Paul Celan
Paul Celan was a poet and translator...
)
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- Review: Paul Van Melle, "J'ai trouvé une autre Bible", in Bulletin, n° 44 (2000), La HulpeLa HulpeLa Hulpe is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On January 1, 2006 La Hulpe had a total population of 7,224...
Le sens de la terre, followed by L’Effeuillée, Aphrodite en trente variations, 1999-2003, Éditions Didro, Paris, 2004 (dedicated to Yves Battistini) ISBN 2-910726-64-9 - Review: Paul Van Melle, "Prose... sans ateliers", in Bulletin, n° 84, La Hulpe Sayat-NovaSayat-NovaSayat-Nova Sayat-Nova Sayat-Nova (born as Harutyun Sayatyan , was an Armenian poet, musician and ashik who had compositions in a number of languages. His adopted name Sayat Nova meant "Master of Songs" in Persian.- Biography :...
, Odes arméniennes (translation of the 47 odes), with Elisabeth Mouradian, L’Harmattan, 2000–2006, Paris, 2006 (dedicated to Sergei Parajanov) ISBN 2-296-01398-8. This book has been labelled for the Armenian year in France, September 2006-July 2007 : "Arménie, mon amie!", and selected for the Price Charles AznavourCharles AznavourCharles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...
on 19 November 2006, at the Marseille Armenian Book Festival. - Reviews:
- Review: Paul Van Melle, "J'ai trouvé une autre Bible", in Bulletin, n° 44 (2000), La Hulpe
} Annie Pilibossian, in Bulletin de l'ACAM, n°66 (January–March 2007), Val-de-Marne
} Paul Van Melle, "Ressusciter les auteurs méconnus", in Bulletin, n°208 (September 2006), La Hulpe
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- "Սայաթ-Նովայի ստեղծագործությունները ֆրանսերենով" (Sayat-Novayi stértsagortsutyunnére fransérénov, "Sayat-Nova's works in French"), in Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն (Hayastani Hanrapetutyun, "Republic of Armenia"), 16 February 2007, Erevan
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} Jean-Baptiste Para, "Historiens de l'Antiquité", in Europe, n° 945-946 (January–February 2008), p. 345-346 Éclats d’une poétique du devenir posthumain, 2000-2007 (Livre II), L’Harmattan, Paris, 2007 (dedicated to Lucie Aubrac
Lucie Aubrac
Lucie Samuel born Lucie Bernard , and better known as Lucie Aubrac, was a French history teacher and member of the French Resistance during World War II....
) ISBN 978-2-296-03301-6
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- Review: Paul Van Melle, "Pour une poétique de la pensée" , in Bulletin, n° 214, La Hulpe Fulguriances et autres figures, (1980–2007), postface by Philippe Tancelin, L'Harmattan, Paris, May 2008 (dedicated to Alexander BlokAlexander BlokAlexander Alexandrovich Blok was a Russian lyrical poet.-Life and career:Blok was born in Saint Petersburg, into a sophisticated and intellectual family. Some of his relatives were literary men, his father being a law professor in Warsaw, and his maternal grandfather the rector of Saint Petersburg...
) ISBN 978-2-296-05656-5 - Reading of Fulguriances at the Théâtre Noir du Lucernaire in Paris, 16 June 2008 Éclats d’une poétique du devenir transhumain, 2003-2008 (Livre III), L’Harmattan, Paris, 2009 (dedicated to Missak ManouchianMissak ManouchianMissak Manouchian was a French poet of Armenian birth, a militant communist in the MOI , and military commissioner of the FTP-MOI in the Paris region...
) ISBN 978-2-296-09603-5 Éclats d’une poétique du devenir, Journal du transvisible, (Livre IV) 2007-2009 Editions L’Harmattan, Paris, February 2010, collection « Poètes des cinq continents » ISBN 978-2-296-11117-2 Avant tout et en dépit de tout (2000–2010), (dedicated to Marina TsvetaevaMarina TsvetaevaMarina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it. In an attempt to save her daughter Irina from...
), Editions L’Harmattan, Paris December 2010, collection « Poètes des cinq continents », ISBN 978-2-296-13176-7 Yeghishe CharentsYeghishe CharentsYeghishe Charents was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist. Charents was an outstanding poet of the twentieth century, touching upon a multitude of topics that ranged from his experiences in the First World War, socialism, and, more prominently, on Armenia and Armenians.An early champion...
, Dantesque legend (1915–1916), (dedicated to Liu XiaoboLiu XiaoboLiu Xiaobo is a Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who called for political reforms and the end of communist single-party rule in China...
), Editions L’Harmattan, Paris December 2010, collection "Armenian letters", ISBN 978-2-296-13174-3
- Review: Paul Van Melle, "Pour une poétique de la pensée" , in Bulletin, n° 214, La Hulpe Fulguriances et autres figures, (1980–2007), postface by Philippe Tancelin, L'Harmattan, Paris, May 2008 (dedicated to Alexander Blok