When the Metro Is Free: An Anthology of Contemporary French Counter-cultural Poetry - Couverture souple

Dent, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0955106192 ISBN 13 : 9780955106194

Editeur : Smokestack Books, 2007

Synopsis

One of the student demands of les événements of 1968 was that the Paris Metro should be free. Be realistic, ran another slogan, demand the impossible ! If such utopianism sounds touchingly innocent today, it is a measure of how far the imagination has surrendered to the impossible conditions of the real . When the Metro is Free is an anthology of counter-cultural poetry from contemporary France, representing the work of a group of poets around by Francis Combes and Le Temps des Cerises. These poets are the descendents of Apollinaire and Jacques Prevert, inheritors of the bohemian tradition of questioning everything, bearers of Marx s idea that nothing human can be alien to us. Although their approaches are radically different, they share the same existential charge, wrestling with the essential problem of modern life - the relationship of the individual to society. Francis Combes, founder of Le Temps des Cerises, France s most famous radical poetry publisher, draws on History to demystify the absolutes of contemporary ideology. Francoise Coulmin explores the narratives of historical female sensibility. The veteran Jacques Gaucheron recalls past conflicts and old comradeships. Gerard Noiret fuses the banal and the extraordinary. David Dumortier takes us on a sharp-witted, amusing trip through the underworld of the Metro. When the Metro is Free is a series of sketches from the Left-bank of the contemporary imagination, post-cards from France s literary counter-culture, poems snatched from the maelstrom of the contemporary - urban, urgent and vital - engaging with daily life and with the struggle to humanize it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan Dent was born in Preston in 1951. He still lives there and teaches modern languages in a local comprehensive school. He has published five books of poetry - Bedtime Story, Antidotes to Optimism, Corker, Who and Town. Since 1995 he has edited the radical literary magazine Penniless Press. He is married with two children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Smokestack Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0955106192
• ISBN 13: 9780955106194
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible