Language:
French
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Tsafon; revue d'études juives du Nord
Angaben zur Quelle:
83 (2022) 119-166
Keywords:
Schwarz-Bart, André, Criticism and interpretation
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Schwarz-Bart, André, Family
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French fiction Jewish authors
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History and criticism
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Fathers in literature
Abstract:
André Schwarz-Bart, recipient of the 1959 Goncourt Prize, published relatively little in his life. But he never stopped writing, tearing up, burning, throwing away in a garbage dump, many manuscripts. In his notes, he mentions two works that he regrets having destroyed. One is a play dedicated to his deported father : Kaddish. Invited to work in the office of the deceased writer in Goyave, Guadeloupe (between 2010 and 2016), I undertook to locate, photocopy, type, fragments of drafts from Kaddish : plans, dialogues, didascalies, working notes, thematic. References to audio cassettes led me to question Simone Schwarz-Bart. Among the tapes she found, nine were about Kaddish. I decided to reconstitute, in a speculative way, what could have been a coherent text, which would use the written passages of three versions of the piece, assembled according to the indications present in André Schwarz-Bart's written or oral notes. Other reconstructions are still possible.
Note:
Includes fragments of the unpublished work "Kaddish" from André Schwarz-Bart's archives.
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