1 juin 2018
Christophe Luzi, « Petru Santu Leca, Paul Valéry et la Corse. Morceaux de correspondance (1924-1933) », HAL-SHS : sociologie, ID : 10670/1.upaqtr
From Petru Santu Leca, the public generally knows only Ninni Nanna (Sottu to the pound) and Ti tengu cara, two songs whose words he wrote and which are now part of the repertoire "traditional" Corsican. The poet was nevertheless prolix and especially one of the mainstays of the cultural movement corsiste of the interwar period. It is in particular with Paul Valéry that Petru Santu Leca maintains a corre-spondence. In 1927, the magazine “L'Annu corsu” Petru Leca is secretary general, publishes in his French part a letter extracted from the series of epistolary exchanges that address the two men. Paul Valéry sits since 19 November 1925 at the French Academy, in the chair of Anatole France he successfully disputed with Léon Bérard and Victor Bérard. July 25, 1924, Paul Valéry responds to a first missive in which Leca no doubt asked him to write a poem or some other writing on Corsica to pub-lish in “L'Annu corsu”? We also learn from this autograph letter, that Paul Valéry came to the island during the year 1876. And that in terms of the certain and accused character, he would like to return there to know it still better, in order to fill a deep aspiration of the imagination, the heart and the spirit.