{"id":514764,"date":"2022-12-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=514764"},"modified":"2022-12-23T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:04:02","slug":"village-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/village-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use poetic friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on their friendship, writers Alberto Nessi and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Meizoz, from Ticino and Valais respectively, translate each other's tiny village stories into their mother tongues, using a style of writing about the ordinary.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In Alberto Nessi's words, their writing is rasoterra<\/em> (\u00ablow to the ground\u00bb). She would come from the ground, gushing, commoner, cradled by a popular impulse. Sourdre de terre would not be her only feat. In the tradition of chanson, she would skim the country lanes, attentive to the details of the tiny lives that dwell there. In other words, it would be an ordinary writing of the days that go by, to the rhythm of the stories of small villages. Under the watchful eye of two poet-writers, it would form poems shaped by the observation of detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The instructions seem simple. It could be reminiscent of Pierre Michon's in Tiny lives<\/em><\/a>, to talk about forgotten little people and little-known villages in France. Except here, it's poetry. So the instructions become different. The dialogue is based on the poetic friendship between Alberto Nessi and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Meizoz. One will translate the other into his mother tongue, from Italian into French and from French into Italian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, they are not translators. The character of each poem, in order to be translated, took them time and \u2019dense linguistic reflection\u00ab. Paraphrasing Voltaire, we could say that the recipe for this entente would be: \u00bbCourts po\u00e8mes et longue amiti\u00e9, such seems to be their motto.\u00ab Not to mention the response that one translated poem can make to another. Or, since we're talking about translation, the response that one poem can make in the other. For the writer-poets, this is \u00bbnot [a] collection written by four hands, but [two] sets of mirrored texts that respond to each other in terms of their subject matter.\u00ab<\/p>\n\n\n\n