Description
This extensive and wide-ranging selection comprises the poetry of one of France's most exciting writers of the twentieth century, the surrealist Robert Desnos. Hailed as the 'prophet' of the Surrealist movement by Andr Breton, Desnos was a hugely influential figure across all art forms at the time, and yet today his work completely underrepresented in the English language, with only his children's poems currently available in English translation. The present volume of nearly 300 poems seeks to redress the balance, moving from youthful, light-hearted material to full-blown surrealism, from poems full of anguish and torment to delightful love poetry, and from whimsical, humorous verses to some of the great poem sequences of the Nazi Occupation period when Desnos was an active resistant.
Author: Robert Desnos
Publisher: ARC Publications
Published: 06/12/2017
Pages: 524
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.17d
ISBN13: 9781906570699
ISBN10: 1906570698
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | French
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