Les Chimeres - Couverture souple

Nerval, Gerard De

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848614039 ISBN 13 : 9781848614031

Editeur : Shearsman Books, 2017

Synopsis

Nerval (1808-1855) is one of the most important writers of nineteenth-century France, both in prose and in verse. A precursor of the symbolists and the surrealists, Nerval has fascinated many major literary figures, including Proust and Breton, Eliot and Apollinaire, Michaux and Leiris. The great sonnet cycle, Les Chimères, in its marvellous combination of spell, quest and dream, continues to fascinate writers, readers, and that special category of writerly readers, translators. The translator of this volume is the gifted poet Will Stone, who explains his work in a strongly-worded essay: "like a partly submerged crocodile, with one amber eye half open the foreign line sits, waiting for the anxious translator to make a move." The book contains three other texts: a foreword by the poet, Anne Beresford, a general introduction to Nerval by Michael Hamburger (published for the first time in the previous edition of this book, some fifty years after it was written), and an afterword and notes on Les Chimères by Professor Norma Rinsler, the doyenne of English Nervaliens.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) was the nom-de-plume of the French writer, poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie. A major figure of French romanticism, he is best known for his poems and novellas, especially the collection Les Filles du feu (The Daughters of Fire), which includes the novella Sylvie and the poem "El Desdichado", also included in Les Chimères. He played a major role in introducing French readers to the works of German Romantic authors, including Schiller and Goethe. His later work investigated the relationship between poetry and madness, reality and fiction, and dreams and life. He was a major influence on Marcel Proust, André Breton and Surrealism.

Will Stone is a poet, essayist and literary translator. His first poetry collection Glaciation (Salt, 2007), won the international Glen Dimplex Award for poetry in 2008. A second collection Drawing in Ash appeared from Salt in May 2011. Shearsman Books republished these in 2015 and then published a third collection, The Sleepwalkers, in 2016. Menard Press published Will's first translation of Les Chimères in 1999. Arc Publications published To the Silenced - Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (2005) and Emile Verhaeren's Poems (2013). Georges Rodenbach's Poems appears in 2017, and Seagull Books will publish his Collected Poems of Georg Trakl in 2018.

Norma Rinsler is Professor Emeritus of French in the Uni-versity of London and a former Vice-Principal of King's College London. She is the author of important studies on Nerval. Her standard edition of Les Chimères appeared in 1973.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shearsman Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848614039
• ISBN 13: 9781848614031
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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