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Claude Royet-Journoud


photo ©2016 Charles Bernstein

Appearing on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, November 28, 2019

Conversation (49:58): MP3


Claude Royet-Journoud discusses his 2021 book, L'usage et les attributs du cœur, Paris, May 17, 2021

Video by Jean-Paul Hirsch


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Reading from La finitude des corps simples, P.O.L, on occasion of its release, Paris, April, 28, 2016

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reading with book in hand

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on La finitude's composition

Lecture de Poète, filmed by François Sarhan, Paris, 2012

Royet-Journoud reads "A la ressemblance des bêtes" from Théorie des prépositions, P.O.L, 2007
"Kardia," Eric Pesty éditeur, 2009
"Asservissement de l'air à son vacarme," A la Pension Victoria, 2011

From Charles Bernstein's Portraits Series: Claude's Prepositions, October 25, 2008, Paris

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Claude Royet-Journoud
I dropped by Claude's apartment early in the afternoon on Rue de l’Aqueduc while I was in Paris for my Double Change reading. We talked through the day, just until I had to leave for Lyon.
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Reading with Emmanuel Hocquard, Jacqueline Risset, and Jean Fremon at First Poetics Program French Poetry Festival, October, 18, 1995

  1. "‘Le drap maternel’ ou la restitution” (5:06): MP3
  2. Charles Bernstein reads his translation, “‘The Maternal Drape' or Restitution” (7:22): MP3, pdf of text
  3. “Descriptive Method,” part 2; Bernstein reads alternating sections of Keith Waldrop’s translation (9:03): MP3

Reading with Keith Waldrop at the Ear Inn, New York, November 3, 1984

  1. La Notion d'Obstacle (Gallimard, 1978) (31:38): MP3
  2. Keith Waldrop reads from his translation, The Notion of Obstacle (Windsor: Awede Press, 1978)
    Note: Royet-Journoud placed a ticking clock on the podium, which can be heard in the recording.

  3. from Les Objets Contiennent l'Infini (Gallimard, 1983), Book 3 (prose section) (2:54): MP3

Reading at the Centre international de poésie Marseille, June 1990

Id est (extraits 1 à 4) (4:09): MP3

Documentary with Edmond Jabés and Lars Fredrikson (1974)

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These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2016 Claude Royet-Journoud. Used with the permission of Claude Royet-Journoud. Distributed by PennSound.