Ombres Et Soleil / Shadows and Sun: Selected Writings of 1913-1952 (English and French Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (746 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0961748176 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 348 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Six tantalizing prose pieces comprise the final section--from the Surrealists' Declaration of 1925, to an essay illuminating the idea of ``committed poetry.'' Overall this is an excellent compilation of the life work of a poet who accorded love and beauty primary status in his search for a language to capture this century's shattering changes. The poems, chosen from over two dozen books and some translated here into English for the first time, are arranged in chronological sections. From Publishers Weekly The seamless, accurate translations that distinguish this bilingual selection of the work of Eluard (1895-1952) are facilitated by Alexander's having worked closely with the poet on many of the pieces. The longest and most varied section, ``Between the World Wars,'' entails Eluard's dada
Prose from radio address & speeches help understand his moti A Customer I am intrigued by the speeches given during the resistance of WWII, after the first war, at the first surrealist exposition in London, and the 2nd surrealist manifesto of 1924 by angry young men who had seen too much suffering in the war and were looking for a . "lyric and committed poems by a prime mover of Surrealists' s" according to A Customer. Paul Eluard was the best beloved European poet of the first half of our century, which William Golding has called the most violent in human history. While illusions were destroyed, this writer wrote love poems, for which he is best known; as medic and infantrym. Poet: Wonderful. Translation: Not. Dan Mufson Perhaps this is a bit unfair of me, but let's just take a look at two translations of one of Eluard's best known poems, "L'amoureuse."Translation 1: She is standing on my lids / And her hair is in my hair / She has the color of my eye / She has the body of my h
Book by Eluard, Paul, Alexander, Lloyd, Buckley, Cicely, Lhote, Andre