Benjamin Fondane's Ulysses: Bilingual Edition

From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded contribution to the literary and intellectual life of Paris. One of the most significant pieces in Fondane's body of work is the long poem Ulysses, first published in 1933. Fondane considerably revised his text during the dark years of occupied Paris, and it is this second "edition without an end," left unfinished at the time of his deportation, that is translated here. It is a moving testament to the poetic voice and philosophical engagement of this exceptional figure of the Paris avant-garde.

Author: Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 06/29/2017
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.79h x 6.05w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9780815635161
ISBN10: 0815635168
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | Jewish
- Literary Criticism | European | French

About the Author

Benjamin Fondane (1898-1944) was a Romanian Jew who immigrated to France. He is the author of several collections of poetry and philosophical essays.

Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody has translated the work of French and Belgian poets, including Paul Valéry and Benjamin Fondane. In 2013, he was awarded the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation.