Conference “Luc Van Tien Story Poem and author Nguyen Dinh Chieu”
Wed 01 Jun 2016, 6 pm
L’Espace
From L’Espace:
You are invited to the conference “Rereading and contemplating the story poem ‘Luc Van Tien’ of Nguyen Dinh Chieu” – a journey to discover a unique illustrated manuscript in 1897, and its 2016 edition with attached comments.
Speakers:
– Pascal Bourdeaux, lecturer of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
– Olivier Tessier, professor of the French School of the Far East
The presentation and introduction to an original illuminated manuscript of the poem Luc Van Tien by its publishers, a manuscript ediscovered in the library of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres (Paris) – an edition provided by a Confucianist scholar of the Hue court (Lê Đức Trach) – was able to represent the virtues and beauties of Confucianism and the Southern popular culture, which had become so dear to Nguyen Dinh Chieu (1822-1888).
Relevant to both written and oral literature of the mid-nineteenth century, the poem “Luc Van Tien” took Nguyen Dinh Chieu to a long pantheon of national literary glories with its ability to beautifully blend classical literature and distinct Southern cultural characteristics. Translated into French in 1864, the publication of Abel Michels in 1883 prompted a French naval officer, Eugène Gibert (who was in mission in Hue between 1895 and 1897) to create an illuminated manuscript, and the task was assigned to a court’s scholar named Le Duc Trach. Back in France, Eugène Gibert gave the manuscript to the library of the Institut de France in 1899, where it was rediscovered in 2011. It is the only illustrated version (with 139 polychrome pictures) of “Luc Van Tien” known to date.
The conference will trace the history and publication of the manuscript. It will illustrate how the work is a major contribution to understanding the civilization of the south of Vietnam in the mid-nineteenth century.
Language: Simultaneous translation
Free entry
Translated by Hanoi Grapevine
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