Allen Mandelbaum

The Savantasse of Montparnasse

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Allen Mandelbaum's long-awaited Savantasse of Montparnasse is a work of wonder, wit, and exhilarating originality. Of Mandelbaum's previous long poem, Chelmaxioms: The Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms of Chelm, James Wright said: ''A beautiful book: original, learned, comic in a way that only a master of many languages (like Joyce) can be comic, often lyrically lovely, and, finally, hauntingly sad. . . . I found myself startled by the extremely dense richness of its learning, only to discover, strategically placed, lyric poems of surpassing simplicity and beauty. So one might grasp the structure of the book as a rhythmical alternation between these two uses of language. Furthermore, one may read the book as a parody of extreme learning--a very deliberate parody--which is, at the same rime, a wonderful display of learning. But no matter how one approaches the book, one is always haunted by the city of Chelm and its inhabitants . . . in one sense a city literally constructed out of language, in another sense . . . a place created and transformed by the poet's imagination into a very specific, concrete town. . . . A marvelously original work . . . an important event." And now, with The Savantasse of Montparnasse, Mandelbaum has gifted us with another unforgettable volume.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1987
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780935296716
• ISBN-10: 0935296719
• Artikelnr.: 54802915

Autorenporträt

Allen Mandelbaum was born in 1926 and died in 2011. His translations of Homer, Dante, Virgil, Quasimodo, and Ungaretti were all published to great acclaim. His rendering of The Aeneid won the National Book Award. He was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.