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The Selected Poems of Rene Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet s wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, the editors have chosen the voices of seventeen poets and translators (Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Cid Corman, Eugene Jolas, W.S. Merwin, William Carlos Williams, and James Wright, to name a few), in homage to a writer long held in highest esteem by the literary avant-garde.
Now in paperback, Rene Char's Hypnos is both a remarkable work of literature and a document of unique significance in the history of the French Resistance. Hailed by the poet Paul Eluard as an "absolute masterpiece" upon its first appearance in 1946, Rene Char's Hypnos is both a remarkable work of literature and a document of unique significance in the history of the French Resistance. Based on a journal Char kept during his time in the Maquis, it ranges in style from abrupt and sometimes enigmatic reflections, in which the poet seeks to establish compass bearings in the darkness of Occupied France, to narrative descriptions that throw into vivid relief the dramatic and often tragic nature of the issues he had to confront as the head of his Resistance network. A tribute to the individual men and women who fought at his side, this volume is also a meditation on the white magic of poetry and a celebration of the power of beauty to combat terror and transform our lives. Translated into German by Paul Celan and into Italian by Vittorio Sereni, the book has never been carried over into English with the attention to style and detail that it deserves. Published in full here for the first time, this long-awaited new translation does justice at last to the incandescence and pathos of the original French.
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
Char is regarded as one of the most important modern French poets. Admired by Heidegger for the profundity of his poetic philosophy, he was also a hero of the French Resistance. Associated with the surrealist movement, he wrote poetry which confronts the major twentieth century moral, political, and artistic concerns with a simplicity of vision and expression that owes much to the poet-philosophers of ancient Greece.
Title: The Wife of Two Husbands, a musical drama, in three acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. By J. Cobb, etc. (Taken from "La Femme a deux maris," by Guilbert de Pixere court sic].)Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Guilbert de pixe re court, Rene Charles; 1803. 8 . 11779.g.45.
Title: The Wife of Two Husbands, a musical drama, in three acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. By J. Cobb, etc. (Taken from "La Femme a deux maris," by Guilbert de Pixere court sic].).Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Guilbert de pixe re court, Rene Charles.; Cobb, James; 1803. 96 p.; 8 . 11779.g.44.
The Word as Archipelago is the first complete translation into
English of La Parole en archipel, an important book that Rene Char
published in 1962, and a book whose title is an apt figure for the
whole body of poetry that Char wrote over a period of fifty years.
The author of this book is a lover, a visionary of the natural
world, an elegist, a phenomenologist of encounter, a mystic of the
night, a spirit of defiant freedom who in the Second World War had
been a leader in the French Resistance.
Rene Char (1907-88) is considered the most important French poet of
his generation. A member of the surrealists in the early 1930s, he
became increasingly preoccupied by the rise of Nazi Germany and
later played a key role in the French Resistance. "Hypnos "is both
a document of unique importance in the history of the French
Resistance and a classic of modern European literature. Based on a
journal Char kept during his time in the Maquis, it is composed of
short prose fragments that range from abrupt and sometimes
enigmatic meditations in which the poet seeks out his metaphysical
and moral compass bearings in the darkness of occupied France to
narrative descriptions that throw into stark relief the dramatic
and often tragic nature of the decisions he had to confront as the
head of his Resistance cell. A tribute to the individual men and
women who fought at his side, the book is also a celebration of the
power of art to combat terror and to transform our lives.
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