One of the foremost poets of the French Resistance, Rene Char has
been hailed by Donald Revell as "the conscience of modern French
poetry." Translated by Mark Hutchinson, The Inventors is a
companion volume to Char's critically acclaimed Hypnos. It gathers
more than forty poems that represent a cross-section of Char's
mature work, spanning from 1936 to 1988. All three genres of Char's
work are represented here: verse poems, prose poems, and the
abrupt, lapidary propositions for which he is best known. These
maxima sententia combine the terseness of La Rochefoucauld with the
probing and sometimes riddling character of the fragments of
Heraclitus. The Inventors includes a brief introduction to Char's
life and work, as well as a series of notes on the backstories of
the works, which explain allusions that may not be immediately
familiar to the English-speaking reader. These new translations
stay true to the originals, while at the same time conveying much
of the music and beauty of the French poems. Praise for Rene Char
"Char, I believe, is a poet who will tower over twentieth-century
French poetry."-George Steiner
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