PhiLlIpe SouPault Poet
Soupault poet, dadaist, and also perhaps less known as one of the translators of Ulysses
History is always a bit unreal until you meet the details right up front.
89. Photograph of the "Déjeuner Ulysse," June 27, 1929.
Among the guests at Monnier's "Déjeuner Ulysse" were some of the most prominent figures in French literature at that time: Léon-Paul Fargue, Eduard Dujardin, Paul Valéry, Jules Romains, and Philippe Soupault. Also in attendance was Samuel Beckett (he is not in the photograph; the rumor is that he got excessively drunk at lunch). None of the translators were in attendance; apparently by this time relations between them had become exceedingly rancorous. As the lunch took place eleven days after June 16, it could be considered as the first Bloomsday celebration. (Buffalo owns the original of this photograph, with Monnier's penned-in names for some of the guests; this is currently on loan to the National Library of Ireland and so a reproduction is displayed.)
(of course there's dripping with irony there the irish borrowing back that Joyce material)
I was in Buffalo back in 2000 checking out a university programme and meeting with a painter and poet there and we visited some of these exhibits .
Over that week we saw a lot of interesting literary archives and materials seeing some sites and at the end of the week we drove to New York City ______________ and that's another story.
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Dimanche
L'avion tisse les fils télégraphiques
et la source chante la même chanson
Au rendez-vous les chochers l'apéritif est orangé
mais les mécaniciens des locomotives ont les yeux blancs
la dame a perdu son sourire dans les bois
Sunday
The plane weaves the telegraph wires
and the spring sings the same song
At the coachmen's headquarters the apéritif is orange
but the train conductors have white eyes
the woman has lost her smile in the woods
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Exclu pour cause de littérature
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