Complete Poems - Couverture souple

Quasimodo, Salvatore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1800171080 ISBN 13 : 9781800171084

Editeur : Carcanet Classics, 2021

Synopsis

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. The citation declares, 'his lyrical poetry with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our time'. Jack Bevan's authoritative translation of Quasimodo life work fills a great gap in our knowledge of twentieth-century European poetry. 'The poetry is textured like shot silk, yet the elegance and syntactical lucidity with which Jack Bevan has worked to bring these poems to English readers enables them to stand as poems in their own right,' wrote Peter Scupham of Bevan's translation of Quasimodo's last poems, Debit and Credit.

Quasimodo's strong and passionate writing continues to testify to the human – and inhuman – realities which have created our modern world. The Italian critic Giuliano Dego wrote, 'To bear witness to man's history in all the urgency of a particular time and place, and to teach the lesson of courage, this has been Quasimodo’s poetic task.'

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) was an Italian poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. During the 1930's Quasimodo was a leader of the "Hermetic" school of poetry, however his later works chart his change from individualism toward sociality.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Carcanet Classics
• Date d'édition: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1800171080
• ISBN 13: 9781800171084
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible