Ana Blandiana

My Native Land A4 (eBook, ePUB)

Patria Mia A4

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the Ceausescu regime, Blandiana became known for her daring, outspoken poems as well as for her courageous defence of ethical values. Over the years, her works have become the symbol of an ethical consciousness that refuses to be silenced by a totalitarian government. Most of the poems in this bilingual ebook with audio are read by Ana Blandiana in Romanian. Blandiana redefines her poeti in every new book of poetry she publishes. My Native Land A4 is her most recent collection. In it she recreates a land of words, water, trees, cities with abandoned churches, fallen angels that cannot find their way back to heaven, and gods that learn to roller-skate to try to reach the young who remain oblivious of their existence. She projects visionary spaces within the confines of a page - the A4 sheet of her title - which emerge out of her imagination as anguished territories in which the lyrical 'I' is compelled to draw precise, clear boundaries out of a diffuse magma of words. The poems articulate a quest for love, beauty and truth, and affirm an urgent need for existential authenticity as a requisite for the redemption of the self, chronicling the struggle between a constantly deteriorating body that is learning how to die and the spirit that strives to overcome its physical constraints. My Native Land A4 contains meditations on fundamental themes such as the fragility and vulnerability of being, the inexorable toll of time, the limitations of the human condition, and the correspondence between life and death within the cosmic rhythms of the universe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780371689
• Artikelnr.: 44664773

Autorenporträt

?Ana Blandiana was born in 1942 in Timisoara, Romania. She has published 14 books of poetry, two of short stories, nine books of essays and one novel. Her work has been translated into 24 languages published in 58 books of poetry and prose to date. In Britain a number of her earlier poems were published in The Hour of Sand: Selected Poems 1969-1989 (Anvil Press Poetry, 1989), with a later selection in versions by Seamus Heaney in John Fairleigh's contemporary Romanian anthology When the Tunnels Meet (Bloodaxe Books, 1996). She was co-founder and President of the Civic Alliance from 1990, an independent non-political organisation that fought for freedom and democratic change. She also re-founded and became President of the Romanian PEN Club, and in 1993, under the aegis of the European Community, she created the Memorial for the Victims of Communism. In recognition of her contribution to European culture and her valiant fight for human rights, Blandiana was awarded the highest distinc-tion of the French Republic, the Légion d'Honneur (2009). She has won numerous international literary awards. Her latest book My Native Land A4 was published in Romania in 2010, and first published in English by Bloodaxe Books in 2014 (translated by Paul Scott Derrick and Viorica Patea).