Jean Bollack (15 March 1923 – 4 December 2012) was a French philosopher, philologist and

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Biography

He first studied classical philology at the University of Basel, among others with and

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, and from 1945 at the University of Paris where he began working under the direction of Hellenist Pierre Chantraine.. He then established the "Centre de recherche philologique" in Lille, which he ran for some years and to which his friend Heinz Wismann participated. According to

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, his philological work is remarkable for its "extraordinary textual vigilance".Barbara Cassin on France Culture

accessdate 16 September 2016. In addition to his work as a Hellenist with his wife and collaborator Mayotte Bollack, he has published studies on the poetry of

Paul Celan Paul Celan (; ; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born German-language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți (German: Czernowitz), in the then Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsi, U ...

. He is considered one of the most penetrating commentators on Celan.

Publications

* ''Empédocle 1 : « Introduction à l'ancienne physique »'', Paris, Éditions de Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1965, (rééd. des 3 volumes) coll. ''Tel'' Éditions Gallimard. * ''Empédocle 2 : « Les Origines »'', edition and translation of fragments and testimonies, Paris, Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1969. ''Tel'' Gallimard. * ''Empédocle 3 : « Les Origines: commentaire »'', commentary, Paris, Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1969. ''Tel'' Gallimard. * ''Héraclite ou la séparation'', in collaboration with Heinz Wismann, Paris, Minuit, coll. "Le sens commun", 1972. eference book* ''La Pensée du plaisir''. ''Epicure : textes moraux, commentaire'', Paris, Minuit, 1975. * ''La Grèce de personne : les mots sous le mythe'', Paris, Éditions du Seuil, coll. "L'ordre philosophique", 1997. * Euripides, ''Iphigénie à Aulis'', transl. in coll. with Mayotte Bollack, Paris, Minuit, 1990. * ''Pierre de cœur'', (unpublished poem by

), Pierre Fanlac Éditeur, 1991. * Euripides, ''Andromaque'', transl. in coll. with Mayotte Bollack, Paris, Minuit, 1994. * ''La naissance d’Œdipe'', (translation and comment of Œdipus Rex), Gallimard, 1995. * Euripides, ''Hélène'', transl. in coll. with Mayotte Bollack, Paris, Minuit, 1997. * Sophocles, ''Antigone'', trans. in coll. with Mayotte Bollack, Paris, Minuit, 1999. * ''Sens contre sens. Comment lit-on?'' Interview with Patrick Llored. La Passe du vent, 2000. * ''Poésie contre poésie (Celan et la littérature)'', PUF, "Perspectives germaniques", 2001. * ''Piedra de corazón. Un poema póstumo de Paul Celan''. With the help of Arnau Pons. Madrid, Arena Libros, 2002. * ''L'écrit. Une poétique dans l'œuvre de Celan'', PUF, "Perspectives germaniques", 2003. * Euripides, ''Les Bacchantes'', transl. in coll. with Mayotte Bollack, Paris, Minuit, 2004. * ''Poesía contra poesía. Celan y la literatura''. With the help of Arnau Pons. Madrid. Trotta, 2005. * * * * *

Bibliography

* Christoph König, Denis Thouard (éd.), ''La philologie au présent : pour Jean Bollack'', Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2010 (collection Cahiers de philologie) * Christoph König, Heinz Wismann (éd.), "La lecture insistante. Autour de Jean Bollack", Paris, Albin Michel, 2011 (Colloque de Cerisy).

References

External links

Site officiel

In memoriam Jean Bollack on the blog Insula
* Interview on France Culture in the program ''Du jour au lendemain'' by Alain Veinstein (30 January 1998)

Accessdate 6 December 2012.
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