The Dawn Breakers: Les Matinaux (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, Band 2) - Softcover

Char, Rene; Worton, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852241330 ISBN 13: 9781852241339

Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1993

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René Char (1907-88) is one of the most important modern French poets. Admired by Heidegger for the profundity of his poetic philosophy, he was also a hero of the French Resistance and in the 1960s a militant anti-nuclear protester. Associated with the Surrealist movement for several years and a close friend of many painters notably Braque, Giacometti and Picasso he wrote poetry which miraculously, often challengingly, confronts the major 20th century moral, political and artistic concerns with a simplicity of vision and expression that owes much to the poet-philosophers of ancient Greece. Les Matinaux (1947-49) is perhaps his greatest collection. Published after the War, it looks forward to a better and freer world, whilst also bearing the marks of a deep-seated hatred of all fascisms. It includes some of the most beautiful love poems ever written in French. Michael Worton s translations convey the essence of Char s poetry (which says difficult things in a simple, traditional way), and his introduction suggests why Char is one of the vital voices of our age. French-English dual language edition.

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René Char (1907-88) is one of the most important modern French poets. Admired by Heidegger for the profundity of his poetic philosophy, he was also a hero of the French Resistance and in the 1960s a militant anti-nuclear protester. Associated with the Surrealist movement for several years and a close friend of many painters notably Braque, Giacometti and Picasso he wrote poetry which miraculously, often challengingly, confronts the major 20th-century moral, political and artistic concerns with a simplicity of vision and expression that owes much to the poet-philosophers of ancient Greece.

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• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1852241330
• ISBN 13: 9781852241339
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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