Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre

Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre (1935[1] - 16 September 2016[2]) was a French translator and editor, adopted by the writer Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964.[3]

Life

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Born in Constantine, an editor, she worked on the reports of the Russell Tribunal in the late 1960s.

In 1956, at age twentyone, she met Sartre. They had a brief affair. In 1965, he adopted her as his daughter.[4]

In 1980, upon Sartre's death, she became his universal legatee.[5]

She initiated and led the movement for the critical re-editing and posthumous publication of Sartre's work, which began in 1985 with the publication of the two volumes of the Critique of Dialectical Reason. She prefaced works by Sartre.

She translated and annotated the Aggadoth of the Talmud of Babylon [fr] - Ein Yaakov (preceded by an Introduction to Talmudic Literature, by Marc-Alain Ouaknin, published by Verdier, series "Les dix paroles", Lagrasse, 1982, re-edited 1990, 1450 pp.).

She has also translated for the theatre Oedipus at Colonus, a tragedy by Sophocles, performed in 2006 at the Varia theatre in Brussels in a production by Vincent Sornaga.

In 2010, she undertook the enlarged and revised edition of the book Situations.

Elkaïm died in Paris. She is buried at the cimetière du Montparnasse.[2]

Publications

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Prefaces to the works of J.-P. Sartre

Notices and notes for a new edition of Situations

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  • Situations, I, (New enlarged edition, presentation, notices and notes, Gallimard, 2010).
  • Situations, II [de], (New enlarged edition, presentation, notices and notes, Gallimard, 2012).
  • Situations, II [de], (New enlarged edition, presentation, notices and notes, Gallimard, 2013).
  • Situations, IV, (New enlarged edition, presentation, notices and notes, Gallimard, 2015).
  • Situations, V, (New enlarged edition, presentation, notices and notes, Gallimard, 2018).
Short stories
Fêtes de nuit (Les Temps modernes n° 155, January 1959)
Rayon fillettes (Les Temps modernes n° 203, April 1963).
Le retour au pays (Les Temps modernes n° 215, April 1964).
Dans le temps (Obliques, 1st quarter 1981).
Articles
  • À propos Les Bonnes Femmes (Les Temps modernes n°173-174, August–September 1960).
  • L'Avventura (Les Temps modernes n° 178, February 1961).
  • Brassens à l’Olympia Les Temps Modernes n° 187, December 1961).
  • The Connexion (Les Temps modernes n° 191, April 1962).
  • Du cinéma considéré comme un assassinat (Les Temps modernes n° 199, December 1962).
  • The Exterminating Angel (Les Temps modernes n° 206, July 1963).
  • about (Les Temps modernes n° 207–208, August/September 1963).
  • Alphaville ou Bêtafilm ? (Les Temps modernes n° 229, June 1965).
  • Le vieil homme et l’enfant (Les Temps modernes n° 252, May 1967).

References

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  1. ^ « Patrimoine littéraire européen - Index général »
  2. ^ a b "Bataille à huis clos pour l'héritage de Sartre". Le Canard enchaîné. No. 5036. 3 May 2017. p. 4.
  3. ^ "Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre (1935-2016)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Stand By Your Man". The New Yorker. 18 September 2005.
  5. ^ "Les questions de Sartre cinquante ans plus tard". Revue Des Deux Mondes (in French). 14 February 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
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