"... so discreetly radiant was her personality". So rightly said, dear Lyne.
What a sad news. I remember with lot of affection our conversations on Indian
poetics at the Library of the Collège de France, and her constant support to my
research, though I was not one of her students.
My sincere condoleances to her family, to her colleagues, to all her students,
Silvia
Silvia D'Intino
CNRS - ANHIMA
Le mercredi 11 janvier 2023, 12:09:54 UTC+1, Lyne Bansat-Boudon via
INDOLOGY <[email protected]> a écrit :
#yiv2596587611 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Dear Indology members, dear
friends and colleagues,
I wish to join my voice to those of my colleagues, Isabelle Ratié and Sylvain
Brocquet. The very sad news of Professor Marie-Claude Porcher's passing came as
a shock to me who had recently sent her my greetings for the New Year. I owe
her for having given a significant turn to my life and career, encouraging me
to choose Indian theatre and aesthetics as my first field of research. During
the long period of her supervision of my D. Lit. thesis, bonds of friendship
were created that never faded. And she did the same with some other students,
so discreetly radiant was her personality. That is the image we will keep of
her.An internationally recognized specialist of Sanskrit kāvya and Poetics,
Marie-Claude Porcher was a philologist in the full sense of the word, a lover
of the texts and of the language, thus a very precise as well as subtle
translator and exegete. Professor Sylvain Brocquet having faithfully described
her wide range of talents and cited her major publications, I will confine
myself to pay tribute to her accomplishments in the field of Indian theatre, as
witnessed by her contributions to Théâtres indiens, the collective volume
published in 1998, and toThéâtre de l’Inde ancienne, an anthology of Sanskrit
theatre, published in the collection of La Pléiade (Gallimard, 2006).
Les âmes des défunts brillent dans le ciel d’hiver.
Lyne Bansat-Boudon
Directeur d'études pour les Religions de l'Inde
Ecole pratique des hautes études, section des sciences religieuses
Membre senior honoraire de l'Institut universitaire de France
De : INDOLOGY <[email protected]> de la part de Isabelle
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Envoyé : mardi 10 janvier 2023 09:50
À : [INDOLOGY] <[email protected]>
Objet : [INDOLOGY] Passing of Marie-Claude Porcher Dear Indology members, dear
friends and colleagues,
I am posting below, on behalf of Professor Sylvain Brocquet, a message bearing
the sad news of Professor Marie-Claude Porcher's passing. She was one of my
teachers when I began learning Sanskrit, and I remember with much gratitude,
admiration and affection her wonderful ability to share her love for kāvya, her
great generosity, and, beyond her reserved manners, her delightful sense of
humour. She will be greatly missed.With my condolences to her family, friends,
colleagues and students,---Isabelle RatiéProfesseur, Département des Études
Orientales, Sorbonne Nouvelle
>From Professor Brocquet, Aix-Marseille University:
We have the regret to report the death of Marie-Claude Porcher, Professor
emerita of Sanskrit, on December, the 31st, at the age of 85. Her funeral will
take place on January, the 13th, at Nantoux (Côte d’Or, France), in privacy.
Marie-Claude Porcher, before she retired, was long Professor of Sanskrit
language and literature in the University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle,
where her teaching was much appreciated by all her students. She specialised in
Sanskrit court poetry and Indian Poetics, and became a prominent indologist in
that field. She studied and translated into French several works composed by
Veṅkaṭādhvarin, in particular hisRāghavayādavīya, a difficult poem whose verses
can be read from left to right or from right to left, thus conveying two
different meanings (anulomavilomakāvya), and hisViśvaguṇādarśacampū (both
published in 1972). Her approach of Indian Poetics was very original and
creative, since, being an expert in Indian traditional alaṃkāraśāstra, and in
contemporary linguistics and poetics as well, she could combine them to provide
analyses that proved to be relevant from both points or view, and helped
connoisseurs not aware of Indian categories to access a deep understanding of
Sanskrit poetry. Among many other scholarly works, including articles on
ambiguity and suggestion, her monography,Figures de style en Sanskrit,
complemented by the analysis of poems by the same Veṅkaṭādhvarin (published in
1978), has been for more than 40 years a reference book that all indologists
have recourse to. She was also a great translator, who achieved a perfect
balance between philological accuracy and literary elegance, as witnessed by
her translation of Daṇḍin’sDaśakumāracarita (published in 1995), probably the
best of all the renderings of that poetic narrative. She was also, with
Madeleine Biardeau, one of the two architects of the celebrated French
translation of theRāmāyaṇa (published in 1999). By her vast knowledge of Indian
literature and theory, her intellectual openness to the contribution of the
human sciences, her taste for belles lettres and the literary quality of her
translations, she undoubtedly was one of the worthiest heirs to the French
indological tradition.
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