"SACHLICHE ROMANZE" OF ERICH KÄSTNER UND "DÉJEUNER DU MATIN" OF JACQUES PRÉVERT: GENRE CHARACTERISTICS OF POEMS AND THEIR TRANSLATIONS
The article provides a comparative analysis of Erich Kästner´s “Sachliche Romanze” (1928) and Jacques Prévert´s “Déjeuner du matin” (1946) using comparative historical and comparative methods. The results of the study showed their belonging to “Gebrauchslyrik” (“everyday lyrics”) which is characteristic of “neue Sachlichkeit” (“new materiality”). Kästner's poem dates back to a romance in the German version of this romance genre and to an evening song, and Prevert, focusing on the morning song, unlike other poems, refuses surrealistic poetics in “Déjeuner du matin”. Both poems are set to music and become modern urban romances. Тhey also became plots for many short films.