d'Arbaud Jouse d'Arbaud

Beast, and Other Tales (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Joyce Zonana, Zonana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Global Humanities Translation PrizeA classic of modern Provenal literature, Jus d'Arbaud's 1926 masterpiece "e;The Beast of Vacars"e; (also known as "e;The Beast of Vaccars"e;) is a haunting parable. Set during the fifteenth century, the tale is narrated by a solitary bull herder-known as a gardian-who stumbles upon a starving creature that is half man, half goat. Terrified, the gardian is nonetheless drawn to the eloquent Beast, a dying demigod who laments the loss of his glorious past even as he wields power over the animals around him. Torn between pity and fear, unable to understand his experiences and afraid he will be condemned for heresy, the gardian records his encounters in a journal, hoping that one day readers will make sense of what he cannot.Set in the vast, lonely landscape of the Camargue delta, where the Rhne meets the Mediterranean, The Beast seamlessly melds fantasy with naturalistic detail about the region's flora and fauna. Three additional stories-"e;The Caraco,"e; "e;Pire Guilhem's Remorse,"e; and "e;The Longline"e;-explore the lives of twentieth-century gardians in the region. Each man succumbs to fears and social pressure, tragically losing what he most loves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780810143135
• Artikelnr.: 72330659

Autorenporträt

JÓUSÈ D'ARBAUD (1874-1950) was a central figure in the Provençal (Occitan) Revival. Celebrated for his poetry, prose, and work as editor of the journal Le Feu: Organe du regionalisme méditerranéen, he often published in Provençal with his own French translations. In 1939 he received the Prix Lasserre from L'Academie Française for the body of his work. JOYCE ZONANA is a writer, literary translator, and professor emerita of English at the City University of New York. Her translations include Henri Bosco's Malicroix and Tobie Nathan's A Land Like You. A MacDowell Fellow, she has received several translation awards, including the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and the ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship.