About us:
Prof. Yves BONNEFOY
Poet, writer and translator of Shakespeare.
Among his many books: 'Shakespeare & the French Poet', 'Yesterday's Wilderness',
'Kingdom, a Dictionary of Mythologies', 'The Lure and the Truth of Painting:
Selected Essays on Art', 'Asian Mythologies', 'Early Poems, 1947-1959', 'Henri
Cartier-Bresson: Photographer', 'The Act and the Place of Poetry: Selected
Essays', 'Words in Stone: Pierre Ecrite', 'Rimbaud',
etc.
Former Professor of 'Comparative Studies of the Poetical Function' at the
prestigious College
of France, founded in 1539 by King François I; where he host a public
meeting with Jorge
Luis Borges, whose works Bonnefoy
admired.
[Photos: Yves
Bonnefoy with a child in his library and a post stamp of the College of
France.]
"Dear Meizoso,
Thank you for offering me the opportunity to evaluate your translations of poems by J. L. Borges collected in his last books 'La cifra' and 'Los conjurados'.
Your translations deeply impressed me with their fidelity to the intellectual quality of Borges's poetry, its epic rhythm, and the etymological care that are the distinctive hallmarks of Borges's works.
Your translations are the labor of love of a devoted Borges reader; they deserve publication to bring French readers closer to the brilliant singularity of Borges's work.
Sincerely",
signed: Yves Bonnefoy, in Paris the 4th February 1986
