Christophe Jezewski, in Polish Krzysztof Andrzej Jeżewski (born 24 April 1939) is a poet,
musicologist,
essayist and translator of Polish descent who has been living in France since 1970.
Biography
Christophe Jeżewski was born in Warsaw, in a Francophone family of humanistic tradition. His maternal grandfather Adam Czartkowski, a scientist and historian of culture, was the author of monographs on
Chopin and
Beethoven; His father was an anglicist and economist, and his mother Zofia Jeżewska - a writer, journalist, and art critic was also the author of four books on Chopin.
At an early age, he developed a passion for translation, which he considered as a bridge between cultures and peoples. At the age of sixteen, he translated the Chantefables et Chantefleurs by
Robert Desnos. Later, while studying the Romance languages at the
Warsaw University, he became one of the most active translators of French poetry (
Segalen,
Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz-Milosz,
Michaux,
René Char,
Jean Follain, the surrealists,
Eugène Guillevic, etc.) and Hispano-American. He introduced the Poles to some poetic geniuses of this continent:
Jorge Luis Borges,
José Gorostiza,
Octavio Paz. At the same time, he continued his poetic work (beginning in 1968 in the magazine Poezja) and was a musical critic. He also began to translate Polish poetry into French, in particular
Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), the father of Polish modern poetry and great Christian thinker of whom John Paul II claimed inspiration. In 1963 he completed his studies of Romance philology at the Warsaw University.
In 1970, the political climate in Poland had become unbearable because of the wave of "red fascism", and he left thanks to a French government scholarship and settled permanently in France. From 1971 to 1973, he collaborated with the Polish staff for the
ORTF which broadcast his 65 portraits of the most prominent French poets of the twentieth.
In 1976 he obtained his degree of
Polish literature at the
Paris-Sorbonne University and married Maria Thelma Noval, a painter, poet and sociologist from Philippines, of whom he had two children. Since 1978, he has made several stays in the Philippines.
Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Cléopâtre et César : tragédie historique écrite aussi bien pour la scène que pour la lecture, avec une mise en valeur des gestes dramatiques et de leur succession, Cahiers bleus-Librairie bleue, 2006
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Testament de feu : poèmes, Arfuyen, 2006
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, L'insurrection angélique, Le Cri édition : In'hui, 2004
Cyprian Norwid, Vade-mecum Les Éditions Noir sur Blanc, 2004
Anna Bolecka, Mon cher Franz,Sabine Wespieser éditeur, 2004
John-Paul II, Mon livre de méditations pour ceux qui souffrent, qui doutent, qui espèrent,
Éditions du Rocher, 2004
Andrzej Kuśniewicz, L'État d'apesanteur,
Albin Michel, 1979, then Librairie générale française, 1983
Andrzej Kuśniewicz, La Leçon de langue morte,[2] Albin Michel, 1981
Andrzej Kuśniewicz, Le Roi des Deux-Siciles, Albin Michel, 1977
Poems and essays
Music, Anima Poetry Press, 2017
Księga snów/Le Livre des rêves, Éditions Polyglotte, 2013
Swiatłość u progu, Topos, 2012
Płomień i noc/ La Flamme et la nuit, Adam Marszałek, 2012
Cyprian Norwid et la pensée de l'Empire du Milieu,L'Harmattan, 2011
Cyprian Norwid a myśl i poetyka Kraju Srodka, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2011
Adam Czartkowski, Beethoven. Próba portretu duchowego. Rozszerzył, opracował i antologią polskich wierszy o kompozytorze opatrzył Krzysztof Andrzej Jeżewski, PIW, 2010
Le pire est certain. Anthologie de la poésie catastrophiste polonaise du XX, Zurfluh/Cahiers Bleus, 2009
Druga księga snow, Miniatura, 2009
W zaświecie snu, Correspondance des Arts, 2009
Zagle niebieskie, Adam Marszałek, 2008
Okruchy z wysokości, in: Angelus Silesius Anielski wędrowiec, Biblioteka Telgte, 2007
Popiół słoneczny Nowy Swiat, 2005
L'épreuve du feu ; précédé de Les vignes de l'espace : poèmes, Librairie Bleue, 2005
Cyprian Norwid, poète et penseur catholique, Liberté politique, 2001
Kryształowy ogrod, Oficyna Krakowska, 2000
Chopin, Szymanowski et leurs poètes = Chopin, Szymanowski i ich poeci, Librairie Bleue, 1999