The only collection of Yves Bonnefoy's criticism in English, this volume offers a coherent statement of poetic philosophy and intent--a clear expression of the values and convictions of the French poet whom many critics regard as the most important and influential of our time. The Introduction touches on many of the essays' concerns, including Bonnefoy's recourse to moral and religious categories, his particular use of Saussure's distinction between langue and parole , his early fascination with Surrealism, and his view ...
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The only collection of Yves Bonnefoy's criticism in English, this volume offers a coherent statement of poetic philosophy and intent--a clear expression of the values and convictions of the French poet whom many critics regard as the most important and influential of our time. The Introduction touches on many of the essays' concerns, including Bonnefoy's recourse to moral and religious categories, his particular use of Saussure's distinction between langue and parole , his early fascination with Surrealism, and his view of translation as "a metaphysical and moral experiment." The essays, published over a nearly thirty-year span, respond to one another, the more recent pieces taking up for renewed consideration ideas developed in earlier meditations, thereby providing the volume with integrity and completeness. Among the subjects addressed in these essays are the French poetic tradition, the art of translation, and the works of Shakespeare, of which Bonnefoy is the preeminent French translator.
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Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x0x9; The binding is tight, bottom corners lightly bumped. Top edges of the panels have a noticeable dent (see photo). Text unmarked. Previous owner name written on the FFEP. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. xxiv, 172pp.
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VERY GOOD. 6X9. Good cover and spine. gold gilt lettering to spine. A selected compilation of the essays of Yves Bonnefoy. pencil writing to very clean endpapers. pages are very clean. _PAB_
