Jean Pavans

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Jean Pavans
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Jean Pavans in Paris – 2015
Born (1949-09-20) September 20, 1949 (age 75)

Jean Pavans is a French writer and translator, born in Tunis on September 20, 1949.

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His father and mother were Bernard Pavans de Ceccatty (1925–1984) and Ginette Fréah (1924–2015). The writer René de Ceccatty is his younger brother.

His first books were published in the early 1980s by Les Éditions de la Différence. He then began his translations of Henry James, [1] the main part of which being The Complete Tales, in four volumes, the first appearing in 1990, and the last one in 2009.

For various publishers, he translated other Anglo-Saxon classics, such as Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Harold Pinter, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

His first play adapted from Henry James, Retour à Florence, was performed in 1985 at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, in Paris.

His French adaptation of The Aspern Papers was staged in 2002 by Jacques Lassalle and produced by the Comédie-Française.

His translation of Harold Pinter's Celebration was staged in 2005 by Roger Planchon at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris.

Published in 2003, his translation of Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay was broadcast in 2012 by France Culture with the actors of the Comédie-Française.

He wrote the libretto of La Bête dans la jungle , an opera by French composer Arnaud Petit, [2] premiered in 2011 at the Forum du Blanc-Mesnil, with the orchestra Les Siècles conducted by François-Xavier Roth.

In 2015, he worked with film director Julien Landais [3] on a script in English based on his scenic adaptation of Les Papiers d'Aspern.

The film, The Aspern Papers , was shot in Venice in July 2017, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. [4]

An expanded version of La Bête dans la jungle premiered in April 2023 at the Oper Köln in a staging by Frederic Wake-Walker, with Emily Hindrichs and Miljenko Turk as May Bartram and John Marcher, and the Gürzenich-Orchester conducted by François-Xavier Roth. [5]

Distinctions

Distinctions : Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres, 1999.

Publications

Éditions de la Différence

Other publishers

Translations

Henry James

Other writers

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References

  1. ↑ Pavans, Jean. BnF Catalogue général (in French). Retrieved March 31, 2018.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ "ARNAUD PETIT, COMPOSITEUR EN RÉSIDENCE, Les Siècles – François-Xavier Roth". lessiecles.com (in French). Archived from the original on August 16, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  3. ↑ N'Duka, Amanda (August 4, 2017). "Jonathan Rhys Meyers To Star In 'The Aspern Papers'". Deadline. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  4. ↑ McNary, Dave (August 4, 2017). "Jonathan Rhys Meyers Joins Vanessa Redgrave in Period Drama 'The Aspern Papers'". Variety. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Das Biest im Dschungel - Oper Köln".
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