French List #: Hypnos

French List #: Hypnos
Mark Hutchinson, Rene Char
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15 Aug 2021 UK
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9780857428691
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Now in paperback, Rene Char' s Hypnos is both a remarkable work of literature and a document of unique significance in the history of the French Resistance. Hailed by the poet Paul Eluard as an "absolute masterpiece" upon its first appearance in 1946, Rene Char' s Hypnos is both a remarkable work of literature and a document of unique significance in the history of the French Resistance. Based on a journal Char kept during his time in the Maquis, it ranges in style from abrupt and sometimes enigmatic reflections, in which the poet seeks to establish compass bearings in the darkness of Occupied France, to narrative descriptions that throw into vivid relief the dramatic and often tragic nature of the issues he had to confront as the head of his Resistance network. A tribute to the individual men and women who fought at his side, this volume is also a meditation on the white magic of poetry and a celebration of the power of beauty to combat terror and transform our lives. Translated into German by Paul Celan and into Italian by Vittorio Sereni, the book has never been carried over into English with the attention to style and detail that it deserves. Published in full here for the first time, this long-awaited new translation does justice at last to the incandescence and pathos of the original French.

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A Winter's Journey: Four Conversations with Marianne Brausch
Abysses
Abysses
Andre Gorz: A Life
Attachment
Beyond Speculation: Art and Aesthetics without Myths
Bliss
Crime of Jean Genet, The
Critical Essays - Volume 1, 1944-1948
Fount of Time, The: The Last Kindom II
French List: Correspondence: Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein
French List: Ecologica
French List: Philosophy of Living, The
French List: Red Scarf, The: Followed by Two Stages and Additional Notes
French List: Rome, 1630: The Horizon of Early Baroque and Other Essays
French List: Rue Traversiere
French List: Someone's Trying to Find You
French List: Suspended Passion, The: Interviews
French List: Tomb(e)
House of Shadows
Hypnos
Last Days of Mandelstam, The
Legend, The
Literary Miniatures
Little Grey Lies
Mysterious Solidarities
Occasional Philosophical Writings
On American Fiction
On Bataille and Blanchot
On Camus
On Merleau-Ponty
On Modern Art
On Novels and Novelists
On Poetry
On Revolution
Paper Collage
Political Fictions
Post-War Reflections
Privy Portrait
Real and Its Double, The
Red Sofa, The
Roissy
Roving Shadows, The
Season of the Shadow
Sex and Terror
Silent Crossing, The
Silent Transformations, The
Three Rimbauds, The
Tristan
Twilight of Torment: Melancholy
Typhus (Play)
Venice and Rome
Villa Amalia
Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

"Superbly translated. . . . Both inspiring and astonishing to read. " * Times Literary Supplement * "Some of [Char' s] most incisive writing about poetry. . . . A superb new translation. . . . Hutchinson' s locution suggests a candid manager with no time to waste on ceremony. " * On the Seawall * "A fresh authoritative English translation . . . . Char' s insightful reflections offer a point-of-view that' s as intimate as that within which he was living, engaged with the life-and-death consequences of the operation at hand. . . . The poet' s work is maintenance of the record by which the rest of us may take stock of our lives. Char' s words are abundantly informed by the actions he undertook. The merits of reading them remain as worthwhile today as ever. " * The Rumpus * "The book is a masterpiece of war poetry in part because it has so little resemblance to what we commonly imagine war poetry to be. It is pensive and philosophical rather than grandiloquent or dramatic. . . . Great books deserve translations in excess of what they actually require, and Hutchinson' s version is wonderfully lucid and supple. It was my favorite book of poetry in 2015. " * Sam Sacks, Open Letters Monthly * "Hutchinson' s translation of Hypnos is a thing of rare intelligence and beauty. It is as if we were truly hearing Char for the first time in English. " * Richard Sieburth, New York University * "The Inventors is meant to be read alongside Hutchinson' s other translation, Hypnos: Notes from the French Resistance, and for me this is not optional-independently they are each beautiful books, but together they are stunning. " * Bookslut *
Rene Char was born in L' Isle-sur-Sorgue in the south of France in 1907 and died in Paris in 1988. A major influence on the generation of French poets who came of age after the Second World War, he was a close friend and associate of Albert Camus. He is widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation. Mark Hutchinson was born in London and lives in Paris. Among his many translations from French are several books by the poet Emmanuel Hocquard and a collection of essays by the sculptor Raymond Mason.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780857428691
Published: 15 Aug 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London
Publisher: Seagull Books London
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Spine: 10mm
Pages: 94

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