En mai et juin 2018, le labex TransferS et Nathalie Ferrand (ITEM) accueillent Andrew KAHN, professeur à l’Université d’Oxford (Royaume-Uni), qui donnera un cycle de conférences sur la littérature russe.
La prochaine conférence portera le titre Osip Mandelstam’s Notre Dame de Paris.
Osip Mandelstam is widely recognized as one of the great Russian poets of the twentieth century. After some prefatory remarks about Mandelstam’s love lyric, the paper will concentrate on a single lyric, “I pray, Dame France, for mercy and compassion,” (“Ia moliu, kak zhalosti i milosti,” 1937), an enigmatic work written during a period of exile in Voronezh and full of Parisian motifs. A secondary aim will be to make talk about the hermeneutics of difficulty poetry and offer some general comments about the critical methods that help to open up his late poetry.
La conférence aura lieu à l'ENS, 24, rue Lhomond, Salle L361, 75005 Paris, de 14-16 h.