Knowing the East
From the time he was a young man, Paul Claudel was fascinated by Asian cultures. The poet, playwright, and literary critic entered the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a diplomat to China and Japan while in his mid-twenties. He spent 18 years between 1895 and 1927 as a tireless observer of both countries' nature, customs, and art. One result is this beautifully-written volume of 61 prose poems Claudel composed over the course of a decade. They have been artfully translated from the French by poet and scholar James Lawler. Lawler provides the most crisp and accurate translation now available of Claudel's work, which was first collected in…
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Weitere Autoren: Lawler, James R. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-691-11902-1
- EAN: 9780691119021
- Produktnummer: 9116036
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 369 g
- Gewicht: 369
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
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Paul Claudel (1868-1955) was the author of numerous plays including Le Pain dur and Le Soulier de satin, and several volumes of poetry, the most famous of which is Five Great Odes. James Lawler is a translator and scholar of modern French poetry, especially that of the Symbolists. Most recently he wrote Poetry and Moral Dialectic: Baudelaire's Secret Architecture.
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