Cinquanta cinc sonets de Shakespeare - Cinquante-cinq sonnets de Shakespeare - Jean-Claude Forêt

Cinquanta cinc sonets de Shakespeare - Jean-Claude Forêt

(Fifty-five sonnets of Shakespeare)

The translation into Occitan of 55 original sonnets of the English author William Shakespeare, made by Jean-Claude Forêt (while traveling in Australia). French translation by François-Victor Hugo.

Editions L'aucèu libre.

The author:

Jean-Claude Forêt is a French academic and writer born in 1950 in Lyon. He discovered Occitan in Ardèche in his early years. Decisive discovery. Since then he has been speaking, reading and writing it in two of his varieties, Vivaroise and Languedoc. A long time French teacher, he also taught Occitan language and literature at the Paul Valéry University in Montpellier. He has published several novels in Occitan and participated in the foundation of Jorn Editions.

Extract:

Sonnet 30 :
Quand citi los remembres d'un còp èra
a las sesilhas d'un doç pensièr mut,
planhi l'abséncia d'una anciana espèra,
vièlh dòl, nòus plors sus mon car temps perdut.