Paris 1925: Ordinary Autumn & All of a Sudden - Couverture souple

Huidobro, Vicente

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848616937 ISBN 13 : 9781848616936

Editeur : Shearsman Books, 2020

Synopsis

Before attaining his poetic maturity - and this would be through poems written mostly in Spanish - Huidobro wrote these two collections in French and published them in Paris in 1925, the same year that a volume of his manifestos appeared (see below). The two books have never been republished in France and have likewise not been published in Spanish translation other than in collected editions of the author's works. While they are in some respects a developmental dead-end for Huidobro, they do demonstrate his attempts to engage, in one volume, with the influence of Dada, and, in the other, with the influence of Surrealism. His later work transcends these overt influences and moves onto new pastures, but these experiments were necessary in order to get him there. The complete texts of both first editions are included here along with all the (later) Spanish versions of the poems, made by the author himself, that have so far come to light. All texts are presented in bilingual facing versions.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Avant-garde poet Vicente Huidobro was born into an aristocratic family in Santiago, Chile. He is known as the creator and exponent of the literary movement called Creationism (Creacionismo), a kind of literary Cubism which combined aspects of modernism with neo-platonism and the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. After studying literature at the University of Chile, he lived in Paris for about ten years, where he associated with poets and artists such as Pablo Picasso, Guillame Apollinaire, and Pierre Reverdy. Huidobro returned to Chile in the mid-1920s, founded a number of magazines, and ran for the presidency of Chile, ultimately losing the campaign. His most definitive works are Altazor and Temblor de cielo (both 1931), but the late collections, Ciudadano del olvido and Ver y palpar (both 1941) sum up his then-uncollected mature work over some 250 pages and demonstrate his undoubted status as a major figure in latin American, and indeed, world poetry. He was an activist against the Franco regime in the 1930s and served as a war correspondent during World War 2, being wounded in the process. He died in Cartagena, Chile in 1948, at the age of 56.

Tony Frazer is the publisher of Shearsman Books, and an occasional translator, usually from German and Spanish. This volume is part of a lengthy series devoted to Huidobro, that aims to present most of the author's mature poetry, together with selected other works, and is expected to be completed in 2022.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shearsman Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848616937
• ISBN 13: 9781848616936
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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