Cinepoems and others / Benjamin Fondane ; edited and with an introduction by Leonard Schwartz ; translated from the French by Mitchell Abidor, [and seven others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fondane, Benjamin, 1898-1944.

Contributor:

Schwartz, Leonard, 1963- editor, writer of introduction.

Abidor, Mitchell, translator.

Series:

New York Review Poets.

NYRB/poets

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

European poetry--20th century.

European poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 220 pages : illustration ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2016]

Summary:

"Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerfully lyric poetic style; a near-surrealist who embraced and produced his own version of existential philosophy; a Romanian poet who wrote in French; a self-consciously Jewish poet of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy just before his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, where he was murdered, yet whose poetry speaks of a plenitude, an overflowing. After Fondane's death, the poetry might have been forgotten had not writers like E.M. Cioran kept the memory of the work alive, and in France today, Fondane's poetry is again widely available. This first American collection of Fondane's poetry includes his surrealist "Cine-poems," philosophical meditations, and poems that, in their secular/mystical Judaism, confront the calamity--and imaginative triumph--of European Jewry. Poems included in this collection are translated by Mitch Abidor, Marianne Bailey, E.M. Cioran, Joseph Donahue, Eric Freedman, Henry King, Andrew Rubens, Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, and Leonard Schwartz"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

From Three Scenarios: Cinepoems/Trois Scenarii: Cinepoemes

From Ulysses/Ulysse

The Sorrow of Ghosts/Le Mal Des Fantomes

From Titanic/Titanic

From Exodus: Super Flumina Babylonis/L'Exode: Super Flumina Babylonis

From in the Time of the Poem/Au Temps Du Poeme: Poemes Epars

E. M. Cioran: Reflections on Philosophy, Poetry, and Benjamin Fondane, interview with Leonard Schwartz

Bibliography

Index of English Titles and First Lines

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Fondane, Benjamin, 1898-1944. Cinepoems and others.

ISBN:

9781590179000

1590179005

OCLC:

900594539

Online:

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