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Über den Autor / die Autorin
Jean Metellus (1937–2014) is the author of several novels, books of poetry, and plays, all written in French and largely untranslated. After an education in his native Haiti, he worked as a teacher. In 1959, to escape the Duvalier dictatorship, Métellus moved to Paris, where he studied linguistics and medicine, specializing in neurology. The magazine
Les Lettres Nouvelles published his poem
Au pipirite chantant in 1973, beginning his career as a poet and writer. Some of Métellus’s early poems were also published by Jean-Paul Sartre in
Les Temps Modernes. He was the recipient of many literary prizes.
Haun Saussy is a professor at the University of Chicago, where he teaches in the departments of comparative literature, East Asian languages and literatures, and social thought. A former president of the American Comparative Literature Association, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published numerous works on literary theory, intercultural comparison, translation, and poetics.
Zusammenfassung
Gathers poems by the noted Haitian poet, novelist, and neurologist Jean Métellus, who died in January 2014. Along with other signature works, this volume includes the first English translation of Métellus's visionary epic poem, "Au pipirite chantant" ("When the Pipirite Sings"), widely regarded as his masterpiece.
