Alain Saint-Saëns

                            FRANCE, TERRE LOINTAINE

                                     POÈMES DE L'ERRANCE

                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                      Introduction de

                                                                                                                                          RUBÉN BAREIRO SAGUIER

                                                                                                                                                         (1930-2014)

                                                                                                                        Poète, ex-ambassadeur du Paraguay en France

                                                                                                                              Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur

 

                                                                                                                 Alain Saint-Saëns                              Rubén Bareiro Saguier

                                              

FRANCE, TERRE LOINTAINE
 

LES FLEURS ELLE M'ENSEIGNAIT
 

HERBE FOLLE
 

AU PALAIS-U
 

THÉ ANGLAIS À LA PETITE FRANCE
 

LE PETIT GRIS
 

ANNÉES HEUREUSES
 

AU PARC DU BUEN RETIRO
 

KATRINA LA MAUDITE
 

UN 7 FÉVRIER
 

CARMENCITA
 

TANT SE MEURT LE POÈTE
 

ZOÉ LA BELLE

MAIS QUAND JE SERAI MORT
 


'Les poèmes d'Alain Saint-Saëns, en particulier dans le recueil,
 
France, terre lointaine, poèmes de l'errance,
ont des accents de troubadours modernes.
Ils m'évoquent agréablement
 les ballades de François Villon dans la France d'aujourd'hui.'

Monique Anna Michel
Writer and poet,
Author of
Le Clézio. L'île Maurice et les mythes de genèse (2010)


 

 

'These poems are really exciting. Alain Saint-Saëns is a writer who writes with his blood'.

Samira Etouil
Writer, author of Sacrifice,
First Prize for Short Story
Rabat (Morroco), 2009

 

'It is SO beautiful, both the concept and the realization. Bravo, bravo!'

        ‘Alain Saint-Saëns, dans sa nouvelle oeuvre poétique,
 France, terre lointaine. Poèmes de l’errance,
 nous livre le portrait à la fois intime
 du voyage parfois “caillouteux” de la vie d’immigré,
et en même temps universel du voyage intérieur introspectif
 du parcours de réussites et d’échecs qui jalonnent et forment notre vie.
..

        Les photos de famille en contexte culturel qui accompagnent
 ce parcours poétique accentuent le côté personnel et particulier
 de ce voyage si bien dépeint. Ecrivain accompli, Alain Saint-Saëns
 nous offre un point de vue qui mène au large et au loin, de l’Europe,
 en Louisiane, au
x pays d’Amérique du Sud.
Cette mémoire lyrique nous berce par ses révélations des pertes et des aux revoirs,
avec une chute finale qui ouvre sur un avenir sans rancune et plein d’espoir:

'Sous les arbres retiré,                   

Patient vous attendrai.

Je sais que vous viendrez,

Mon silence comprendrez.

Passé bien enterré,

Tous je vous absoudrai.'

Ce recueil, très attachant,  nous fait goûter le plaisir
 de partager les détours d’une vie et d’un coeur poétique en mouvement’.

Cynthia Hahn
Poet, author of

Outside-In-Sideout  (2010, Finishing Line Press, USA)

La cendre des mots (L’harmattan),

Voyages en cancer (L’harmattan),

Wounded Breast (Spinifex)

 

 

'It is very beautiful, very sincere, with a contagious sensitivity.'

Abderrahman Beggar
Writer, author of L'épreuve de la béance
(2009, Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde, USA)
Wilfried Laurier University, Ontario, Canada

 


 

 

 

Alain Saint-Saëns is Agrégé d'Histoire, Docteur en Histoire et Docteur Habilité from the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail (France).

A former Scientific Fellow of the French School for Advanced Spanish Studies in Madrid, Spain (Casa Velázquez) for three years,

he is Professor of Modern History; History of Spain and the Mediterranean; and International Relations.  

He wrote and directed more than ten major books of History and Art History in French, English, and Spanish.

An admired poet, Alain Saint-Saëns published in Spanish, Cantos Paraguayos.  Poemas de Libertad (2009);

as bilingual French-Spanish editions: Curuguaty (2012), and Enfances sous les lapachos/Infancias bajo los lapachos (2014).

His
book of poems in French, was published

in 2011 under the title, France, terre lointaine.  Poèmes de l'errance.

A praised playwright, Alain Saint-Saëns recently published two plays: 

Ordeal at the Superdome. Escaping Katrina's Wrath in 2010; and Pecados de mi pueblo (2013) in Spanish.

As a translator, Alain Saint-Saëns recently translated:

Paraguayan Juan Manuel Marcos' famous novel, El invierno de Gunter, from Spanish to French;

The book was published in 2011 by Editions L'Harmattan in Paris, France, under the title, L'hiver de Gunter.

and Brazilian poet Aleilton Fonseca's book of poetry, Um rio nos olhos, from Portuguese to Spanish,

published by University Press of the South in 2013, under the title, Un río en los ojos.

Alain Saint-Saëns has written a novel in French, Deux veuves et un ouragan, a story of desperation, love, suffering, and redemption,

based in New Orleans, a city the author has been living in for twenty years and that he passionately loves.

This novel will be published in France in 2014.

Alain Saint-Saëns is preparing a Nouvelle anthologie de la poésie française du Moyen Age à nos jours

in French, to be published in 2015.

 

                                                                                                                                                          

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