Jean-joseph rabearivelo biography books
•
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (JJR) is generally acknowledged as the greatest twentieth-century poet of Madagascar and the first modern poet of Africa. He was born in in an impoverished but noble family in the capital city, Antananarivo, to an unwed mother. His birth name was Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, which he changed later to Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. He worked as an assistant librarian at a Social Club and later as a proofreader at a publication house in Antananarivo. He corresponded with a wide range of writers around the world, including André Gide, Paul Valéry, Jean Amrouche, Paul Claudel, and Valery Larbaud, and spent large sums to buy books and ship them to Madagascar. JJR joined other Malagasy poets and writers to start a literary movement termed &#;Hitady ny Very&#; (&#;The Search for Lost Values&#;), to promote the traditional literary and oral arts of Madagascar such as Hainteny, Kabary and Ohabolana. He committed suicide in After Madagascar’s Independence in , he was decla
•
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Malagasy writer (/ – )
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo | |
|---|---|
Rabearivelo, c.&#; | |
| Born | Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo 4 March or Ambatofotsy, Madagascar |
| Died | 22 June (aged 34 or 36) Antananarivo, Madagascar |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Literary movement | Romantic, post-symbolist, modernist, surrealist |
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (4 March or – 22 June ), born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, was a Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar. Part of the first Malagasy generation raised under French colonization, Rabearivelo grew up impoverished and failed to complete secondary education. His passion for French literature and traditional Malagasy oral poetry (hainteny) prompted him to read extensively and educate himself on a variety of subjects, including the French language and its poetic and prose traditions. He published his first poems as an adolescent in local literary reviews, soon
•
J.J. Rabearivelo
When Jean Joseph Rabearivelo (J.J. Rabearivelo) was 14 years old, he published his first poem in Malagasy in the publication “Vakio ity”, under the pseudonym K. Verbal. His lyrical career is divided into 2 periods.
- The 1st period was directed towards nature, trees, dreams, and the land of his ancestors
- The 2nd period was shrouded in the mysterious labyrinth of the subjective and symbolic.
His songs, although diverse, have the same background: the theme of death and the grave, or they express thoughts about what’s “above the grave”. His best poems are funnen in the collections Presque-songes () and Traduit de la nuit (); both collections are bilingual, as the author wrote them in both Malagasy and French. J.J. Rabearivelo is a poet of great stature. He was active during the period of colonisation and bridges the two cultures, Malagasy and French.
As a member of the elite, he was educated. He had a vast knowledge of both the Malagasy literature and the