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Steles (Paperback, Critical Ed)
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Steles (Paperback, Critical Ed)
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Victor Segalen has come to be widely recognized in recent years as
one of the luminaries of French modernism. Trained as a surgeon and
Chinese interpreter, he wrote prolifically in a variety of genres.
With this highly original collection of prose poems in French and
Chinese, Segalen invented a new genre--the "stele-poem"--in
imitation of the tall stone tablets with formal inscriptions that
he saw in China. His wry persona declaims these inscriptions like
an emperor struggling to command his personal empire, drawing from
a vast range of Chinese texts to explore themes of friendship,
love, desire, gender roles, violence, exoticism, otherness, and
selfhood. The result is a linguistically and culturally hybrid
modernist poetics that is often ironic and at times haunting.
Segalen's bilingual masterwork is presented here fully translated,
in the most extensively annotated critical edition ever produced.
It includes unpublished manuscript material, newly identified
sources, commentaries on the Chinese, and a facsimile of the
original edition as printed in Beijing in 1914. Volume 2 of this
work will be available online at www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/segalen2
and www.steles.org.
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