Eugene Guillevic

Carnac

Übersetzer: Montague, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of France's most important contemporary poets, Eugene Guillevic (1907-97) was born in Carnac in Brittany, and although he never learned the Breton language, his personality is deeply marked by his feeling of oneness with his homeland. His poetry has a remarkable unity, driven by his desire to use words to bridge a tragic gulf between man and a

Produktdetails

• Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets
• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Bilingual â facing pageâ ed
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 252g
• ISBN-13: 9781852243937
• ISBN-10: 1852243937
• Artikelnr.: 21162314

Autorenporträt

One of France's most important modern poets, Eugène Guillevic (1907-1997) was born in Carnac in Brittany, and although he never learned the Breton language, his personality is deeply marked by his feeling of oneness with his homeland. His poetry has a remarkable unity, driven by his desire to use words to bridge a tragic gulf between man and a harsh and often apparently hostile natural environment. For Guillevic, the purpose of poetry is to arouse the sense of Being. In this poetry of description - where entire landscapes are built up from short, intense texts - language is reduced to its essentials, as words are placed on the page 'like a dam against time'. When reading these poems, it is as if time is being stopped for man to find himself again.