That light, all at once : selected poems / Jean-Paul de Dadelsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dadelsen, Jean-Paul de, 1913-1957, author.

Contributor:

Hacker, Marilyn

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters book.

The Margellos world republic of letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French poetry--Translations into English.

French poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Poetry in a time of upheaval Equal parts dramatic and symphonic, the poetry of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen provides acute insight into the European consciousness of the first half of the twentieth century. With energetic innovation and imaginative depth, Dadelsen extols the somber beauty of his Alsatian homeland, grapples with the elusiveness of meaning, and decries religion’s futile attempts to speak to a continent ravaged by fascism and war. His is an acerbic and humane assessment of French and European identity that draws on the past and imagines the future, while remaining firmly rooted in the present. In these poems, Dadelsen modulates himself in dramatic monologue, exploring a mosaic of voices to form a composite portrait of the postwar landscape. Inhabiting such characters as King Solomon, Johann Sebastian Bach, provincial French women, and a Hungarian resistant in the 1956 uprising, the poems in this new bilingual collection offer an inside look at the shifting cultural topography of midcentury Europe, forged in the war that reshaped our understanding of the human condition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Translator’s Preface

Bach in Autumn

Women of the Plain: Variations on a Theme

Jonah

Red in the Fog

Credits

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-25563-2

OCLC:

1193978813