Surrealist, Lover, Resistant: Collected Poems - Arc Classic Translations - Couverture souple

Desnos, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1906570698 ISBN 13 : 9781906570699

Editeur : Arc Publications, 2017

Synopsis

This extensive and wide-ranging selection is taken from three collections of the poetry of one of France's most exciting writers of the twentieth century, the surrealist Robert Desnos. Hailed as the prophet of the Surrealist movement by André Breton, Desnos was a hugely influential figure across all art forms at the time, and yet today his work completely underrepresented in the English language, with only his children s poems currently available in English translation. The present volume of nearly 300 poems seeks to redress the balance, moving from youthful, light-hearted material to full-blown surrealism, from poems full of anguish and torment to delightful love poetry, and from whimsical, humorous verses to some of the great poem sequences of the Nazi Occupation period when Desnos was an active resistant.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Timothy Adès is a translator-poet. Born in 1941, he learnt to write Latin and Greek verse at school. Later, he started to translate poetry from modern languages. His award-winning version of Jean Cassou's 33 Sonnets of the Resistance and Victor Hugo's How to be a Grandfather were published in 2002. Cuernavaca by Alfonso Reyes won the TLS Premio Valle-Inclán Prize and Hugo's Moscow, Waterloo, St Helena the John Dryden Prize. Versions of Brecht, Desnos, Louise Labé and many others have appeared in journals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arc Publications
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906570698
• ISBN 13: 9781906570699
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 524
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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