Author: Jacques RédaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Jacques Réda, Treading Lightly
Author: Jacques RédaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Treading Lightly
Author: Jacques RédaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Yves Bonnefoy's finest contemporary in a bilingual selection, beautifully translated with the author's approval and co-operation.
Jacques Réda
Author: Aaron PrevotsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004323686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
In Jacques Réda: Being There, Almost, Aaron Prevots studies the work of this major contemporary French writer since the 1950s—poetry, novels, literary essays, short prose, jazz histories. He particularly examines Réda’s explorations of place, including how the ‘world’s energy’ becomes the ideal dancing partner, poetry incarnate in one’s arms. Réda embodies ‘being there, almost’ because he wanders with great wisdom yet renounces any glory in this metaphorical dance. He aligns us with the outer world’s rhythms and time’s passage. Fleeting waves of perception create a voluptuous, unified whole. In considering the arc of Réda’s works from 1952-2015, Aaron Prevots locates a progression from post-Baudelairean flânerie to commemoration of childhood, classical antiquity, fellow writers, jazz, physics, swing, theology, and trains.
Into the Heart of European Poetry
Author: John TaylorPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351511629
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
John Taylor's brilliant new book examines the work of many of the major poets who have deeply marked modern and contemporary European literature. Venturing far and wide from the France in which he has lived since the late 1970s, the polyglot writer-critic not only delves into the more widely translated literatures of Italy, Greece, Germany, and Austria, but also discovers impressive and overlooked work in Slovenia, Bosnia, Hungary, Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands in this book that ranges over nearly all of Europe, including Russia.While providing this stimulating and far-ranging critical panorama, Taylor brings to light key themes of European writing: the depth of everyday life, the quest of the thing-in-itself, metaphysical aspiration and anxiety, the dialectics of negativity and affirmation, subjectivity and self-effacement, and uprootedness as a category that is as ontological as it is geographical, historical, political, or cultural. The book pays careful attention to the intersection of writing and history (or politics), as several poets featured here have faced the Second World War, the Holocaust, Communism, the fall of Communism, or the war in the former Yugoslavia.Taylor gives the work of renowned, upcoming, and still little-known poets a thorough look, all the while scrutinizing recent translations of their verse. He highlights several poets who are also masters of the prose poem. He includes a few novelists who have fashioned a particularly original kind of poetic prose, that stylistic category that has proved so difficult for critics to define. Into the Heart of European Poetry should be of immediate interest to any reader curious about the aesthetic and philosophical ideas underlying major trends of contemporary European writing. In a day and age when much too little is translated and thus known about foreign literature, and when Europeans themselves are pondering the common denominators of their own culture, this book is a
Signs and Humours
Author: Lavinia GreenlawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This anthology brings together 100 poems written over the last 2,000 years to show how one of the most basic human concerns, the body, has continued to preoccupy, fascinate and agitate poets, including 22 new poems from some of Britain's finest writers.
Chardin and Rembrandt
Author: Marcel ProustPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1941701507
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Chardin and Rembrandt is an unfinished essay written around 1895 by Marcel Proust. Oft overlooked in Prousts illustrious writing career, this book is a newly translated version by David Zwirner Books as one of the first two entries in its ekphrasis series. This essay is a literary experiment in which an unnamed narrator gives advice to a young man suffering from melancholy, taking him on an imaginary tour through the Louvre where his readings of Chardin imbue the everyday world with new meaning, and his ruminations on Rembrandt take his melancholic pupil beyond the realm of mere objects.
Return to Calm
Author: Jacques RedaPublisher: Host Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780924047466
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Paths to Contemporary French Literature
Author: John TaylorPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351500619
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Praised for his independence, curiosity, intimate knowledge of French literature, and sharp reader's eye, John Taylor is a writer-critic who is naturally skeptical of literary fashions, overnight reputations, and readymade academic categories. Here he examines various genres of politically committed literature (such as Jean Hatzfeld's "narratives" about Rwanda or Tchicaya U Tam'si's verse), some overlooked fiction, and several provocative experiments with literary form (ranging from the poetry of Jean-Paul Michel and Marie etienne to the "three-line novels" of Felix Feneon).Taylor continues to reveal the remarkable resourcefulness of French writing. Besides drawing attention to authors (like Dai Sijie or Albert Cossery) who have come to French from other languages, he has added younger novelists to his critical panorama.Challenging persistent cliches and recovering deserving voices from unjust neglect, Taylor's vision of French literature conjures up the image of a vital nexus. Poetry crisscrosses with prose, writers from one generation meet up with those from the next or the previous one, while the philosophical ideas underlying French writing are scrutinized. This is an essential guide to the realities of French culture today.
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