the Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis

Collection title

The circle of midnight

ID

INA00601

Source

INA (FR)

First broadcast date

04/29/1996

Production year

1996

Abstract

Recorded live, Laure Adler devotes her whole show to poetry and poetic writing . Adonis is a pseudonym for Ali Ahmad Said Esber, French and Arabic-speaking Syrian- Lebanese poet and literary critic, born January 1, 1930. He evokes Arabic poetry and tries to compare it with Western poetic writing. He talks about his admiration for René Char and tries to define what mysticism and the recurrent theme of wandering mean to him.

Type

video

Production companies

• France 2 - Own production

Broadcaster

FTV - F2

Audiovisual form

Debate

Personalities

• Adonis poet

Primary theme

Languages and literatures

Credits / Cast

• Veyne Paul - Participant
• Adonis poet - Participant

Period of events

• 1996

Map locations

• France - Centre and Ile-de-France - Paris

Original language

French

Media running time

9m51

Additional information

Archives: Circulated by Marie-Claude Char. Archives: Rene Char reads one of his poems (Michel Soutter, 1966)