Jules Laforgue. Tradizione e traduzioni

The journey in which Velez takes us by the hand surprises for its ability to reveal the man-poet behind the mask of sarcasm, as well as Laforgue's vocation to seek new forms of expression of reality starting from a re-semanticized past towards a future that exists/does not exist in the dream of the liberated mind. A journey that leads him to ask himself why, one hundred and fifty years after his death, this French author is still translated and studied in Italy and around the world. The French poet and narrator, from the first translation, by Margherita Sarfatti in 1919, to the last one in 2023 by Luigi Azzariti-Fumaroli, has never stopped being translated by his transalpine cousins, accumulating, as Velez reports, about thirty titles (including reprints) catalogued between the national libraries of Rome and Florence.