«Je prête l’oreille…»: traduire les “Cinq Grandes Odes” en anglais

Lauren Bergier has just published a translation of the Five Great Odes and The Processional to greet the new century (Bloomsbury, fall of 2024). She gives full meaning to Emmanuelle Kaës’s words about a Claudelian language pregnant with the rumor of other languages. As a great reader of Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, and the King James Bible, she hears their rhythms and accents in Claudelian poetic work: in fact, the poet’s verse is modeled on cadences that many Americans know. This deep listening to the text leads her to understand its intimate meaning.