Common Cause - Couverture souple

Combes, Francis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0956034187 ISBN 13 : 9780956034182

Editeur : Smokestack Books, 2010

Synopsis

`Communism,' wrote Brecht, `is the simple idea so hard to achieve.' Common Cause tells the hard story of this simple idea, from the Garden of Eden to the French Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a brave and original history of utopia, revolution, and hope. It is a study in verse of the Communist movement in the twentieth-century, the men and women who led it, like Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky and Gramsci, as well as some of the artists who marched in their ranks, like Mayakovsky, Picasso and Brecht. Common Cause is a `history of the defeated', a book about enthusiasm and illusion, heroes and martyrs, saints and sinners. <BR>It is an epic, a tragedy and a manifesto for the utopian imagination. <BR>

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The French poet Francis Combes has published fifteen books of poetry, including La <BR>Fabrique du Bonheur, Cause Commune, Le Carnet Bleu de Chine and La Clef du <BR>Monde est dans l'Entrée à Gauche. He has translated several poets into French, <BR>including Heine, Brecht, Mayakovsky and Attila Joszef. He has also published two <BR>novels and, with his wife Patricia Latour, Conversation avec Henri Lefebvre. He is a <BR>founder of the radical publishing cooperative, Le Temps des Cerises, and was for <BR>many years responsible for putting poems on the Paris Metro. <P>Alan Dent is a poet, translator and critic. He edits the radical cultural journal <BR>Penniless Press. His anthology of contemporary French counter-cultural poetry, When <BR>the Metro is Free, is published by Smokestack.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Smokestack Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0956034187
• ISBN 13: 9780956034182
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible