A year after that he married Christine Rousset.īesides his wife, he leaves their two daughters, Helene and Elizabeth, and three granddaughters. The poet Rene Char helped him publish his first collection of poems in 1950. Dupin was a teenager when his family moved in 1944 to Paris, a city he once described as having been left ‘‘a desert’’ in the wake of its wartime occupation. Jacques Dupin was born in 1927, in the small town of Privas in the south of France, where his father was the psychiatrist on staff at a state-operated mental hospital. ‘‘I don’t think I have ever had such a great friend.’’ ‘‘Jacques was a model of integrity and a man of immense generosity, especially toward young artists,’’ Auster said. Auster stayed for a year, he said, writing most of the poems later included in his book ‘‘Unearth.’’ Dupin and his wife, Christine, often lent to struggling writers, political refugees, and others. During a sojourn in Paris in the early 1970s, he said, he sought out the poet, who not only bought him dinner but also, soon afterward, gave him use of the guest room in his apartment, which Mr. Dupin’s poems since he stumbled on them at his local library as a young man. Dupin’s poetry ‘‘demands of us not so much a reading as an absorption.” In an interview Friday, Auster said he had been an ardent fan of Mr. ‘‘Uncompromisingly hermetic in attitude and rigorously concise in utterance,’’ Auster wrote, Mr. Dupin’s, as well as one of his rare English translators.Īuster’s translation of ‘‘Fits and Starts: Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin’’ was among only a handful of collections to introduce his often difficult work to readers in the United States. American writer Paul Auster, author of ‘‘The New York Trilogy’’ and other novels and memoirs, was a protege and friend of Mr.
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