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Douve Pb (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets) (English and French Edition)
Yves Bonnefoy
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Description for Douve Pb (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets) (English and French Edition)
Paperback. Translator(s): Kinnell, Galway. Series: Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 0. Weight in Grams: 250.
Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) was a central figure in post-war French culture, with a lifelong fascination with the problems of translation. Language, for him, was a visceral, intensely material element in our existence, and yet the abstract quality of words distorts the immediate, material quality of our contact with the world. This concern with what separates words from an essential truth hidden in objects involved him in wide-ranging philosophical and theological investigations of the spiritual and the sacred. But for all his intellectual drive and rigour, Bonnefoy's poetry is essentially of the concrete and the tangible, and addresses itself to our ... Read more
Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) was a central figure in post-war French culture, with a lifelong fascination with the problems of translation. Language, for him, was a visceral, intensely material element in our existence, and yet the abstract quality of words distorts the immediate, material quality of our contact with the world. This concern with what separates words from an essential truth hidden in objects involved him in wide-ranging philosophical and theological investigations of the spiritual and the sacred. But for all his intellectual drive and rigour, Bonnefoy's poetry is essentially of the concrete and the tangible, and addresses itself to our ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Number of pages
192
Publication date
1997
Series
Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852241322
SKU
V9781852241322
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99-68
About Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) was one of France's greatest modern poets as well as a distinguished essayist and academic. He taught literature at several universities in Europe and the USA, and following the death of Rolande Barthes in 1981 was given the chair of comparative study of poetry at the Collège de France. His works have been of great importance in ... Read more
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