The Cahiers Series -Boxed Set Vols 1-6

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Edité par Sylph Editions, 2008

The Cahiers Series is published by Sylph Editions in collaboration with The American University of Paris. The goal of this series is to make available new explorations in writing, in translating, and in the areas linking these two activities. This boxed set has numbers 1-6 in the series all softcover Sewn paperback illustrated 1) Richard Pevear Translating Music - ISBN 9780955296314 With translations by the author The first volume in the series is by one of the most renowned contemporary translators into English. He discusses his recent experience of translating Tolstoy s War and Peace, and offers alongside his illuminating essay a wonderful rendition of Pushkin s long poem The Tale of the Preacher and His Man Bumpkin. The poem is printed in Russian and English and is accompanied by drawings by Pushkin himself. 2) Muriel Spark Walking on Air - ISBN 9780955296321 Nine short pieces by Muriel Spark: notes and reflections, dreams, diary entries, stories, a translation, and even a photograph she took in 1988. Assembled by Dan Gunn and Penelope Jardine, this cahier is not only a timely reminder of Sparks broad range of interests, but also of her wit, humour and literary sensitivity. 3)Jonathan Harvey and Jean-Claude Carrière Circles of Silence - ISBN 9780955296338 The opera Wagner Dream, by composer Jonathan Harvey, premiered in 2007. In this cahier, Harvey discusses with his librettist Jean-Claude Carrière the ideas underlying the opera and, in a detailed essay about the undecidability of music, reveals the opera s Buddhist leitmotifs. With images from the opera and explanatory marginalia, this cahier offers a clear insight into the work of one of the foremost contemporary composers of electro-acoustic music. 4. Alan Jenkins Drunken Boats - ISBN 9780955296345 With translation by the author In between two new and previously unpublished poems, Alan Jenkins offers his refreshing translation of Rimbaud s masterpiece: Le Bateau Ivre. With images by Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Bill Pownall (whose work was a source of inspiration for the poems here), this cahier sails down several rivers, placid and turbulent, and finds there more than one drunken boat. 5) Lydia Davis Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red - ISBN 9780955296352 With translations by the author Following her acclaimed translation of Swann s Way, Lydia Davis offers a partial alphabet of Proust translation problems and their solutions. She muses on the near-impossibility of summarising works by Maurice Blanchot, and ends with a group of short narratives that explore the space between dream and waking reality. This cahier is a wondrous adventure into the perils and delights of translating, of reading and of dreaming. 6.Isabella Ducrot Text on Textile - ISBN 9780955296369 Translated from the Italian by Adelaide Cioni and Ornan Rotem Isabella Ducrot is a Roman textile artist and painter, who in this cahier presents reflections on the nature of textile and weaving which arise both from her major textile collection and from her close reading of mythology and art history. Her meditations are illustrated by her own art and are introduced by a specially-written poem by the celebrated Italian poet Patrizia Cavalli. "slipcase has a some wear,scrape; books minor wear, very good". N° de réf. du vendeur BLUE-1

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Titre : The Cahiers Series -Boxed Set Vols 1-6
Éditeur : Sylph Editions
Date d'édition : 2008
Reliure : Soft cover
Etat : Very Good