Saint Jerome's Posthumous Life: Aspects of His Reception in the Twentieth Century.
The paper examines three examples of Saint Jerome's contemporary reception. First, in Sous l'invocation de Saint Jérôme, the essay by the French writer and translator Valery Larbaud (1946), Jerome's life is imagined as the large city of Hiéronymopolis where three itineraries are possible: one that i...
| Published in: | Clotho Vol. 3; no. 2; pp. 115 - 128 |
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University of Ljubljana, Faculty of the Arts
2021
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| Summary: | The paper examines three examples of Saint Jerome's contemporary reception. First, in Sous l'invocation de Saint Jérôme, the essay by the French writer and translator Valery Larbaud (1946), Jerome's life is imagined as the large city of Hiéronymopolis where three itineraries are possible: one that is imaginary to Stridon, Rome, and Bethlehem; one that is iconographical through the paintings of Raffaello, Correggio, and Domenichino, and one that is literary through Jerome's works, divided into many "city districts," where an impressive bridge, the Vulgata, connects Jerusalem to Rome. - In the eccentric novel Jérôme ou de la traduction by the French-Canadian writer Jean Marcel (1990), Hieronymus's famous lion narrates the main episodes of the Saint's life, especially regarding his translations. This is an existential metaphor for the passage from the ancient eastern world to early Christian Rome. - The poetic movie by the Brasilian director Júlio Bressane, São Jerônimo (1999), is not a biographical reconstruction of Jerome's life, but rather a fresco, which consists of some moments of his life and some iconic symbols (the skull, the lion, the desert). Članek obravnava tri primere sodobne recepcije svetega Hieronima. Prvič, v Sous l'invocation de Saint Jérôme, eseju francoskega pisatelja in prevajalca Valeryja Larbauda (1946), je Hieronimovo življenje predstavljeno kot veliko mesto Hiéronymopolis, kjer so možne tri poti. Ena je namišljena, v Stridon, Rim in Betlehem; druga je ikonografska, skozi slike Rafaela, Correggia in Domenichina; zadnja je literarna, skozi Hieronimova dela, razdeljena na številne »mestne četrti«, kjer mogočen most, Vulgata, povezuje Jeruzalem z Rimom. - V ekscentričnem romanu Jérôme ou de la traduction francosko-kanadskega pisatelja Jeana Marcela (1990) Hieronimov slavni lev pripoveduje o osrednjih epizodah iz svetnikovega življenja, zlasti o njegovih prevodih. To je eksistencialna metafora za prehod iz sveta starodavnega Vzhoda v zgodnjekrščanski Rim. - Poetični film brazilskega režiserja Júlia Bressanea São Jerônimo (1999) ni biografska rekonstrukcija Hieronimovega življenja, temveč freska, sestavljena iz trenutkov njegovega življenja in osrednjih simbolov (lobanja, lev, puščava). |
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