| Prose Contributor(s): Bonnefoy, Yves (Author), Romer, Stephen (Editor), Rudolf, Anthony (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1784108111 ISBN-13: 9781784108113 Publisher: Carcanet Classics OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.23 lbs) 456 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminal essayist and thinker. This companion volume to Yves Bonnefoy: Poems contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well as a generous selection from all periods. In his art criticism, as in his literary essays, Bonnefoy manages that rare thing: to impart metaphysical urgency to each discreet encounter with a painting or a poem, born of his constant quest for intensity, for 'presence'. Whether he is examining an early Byzantine fresco, a Shakespeare play, a Bernini angel, a drawing by Blake, a poem by Rimbaud, the exigency, the high seriousness and the challenge is the same: to affirm presence, and finitude, against all forms of life-sapping conceptual thought. If they cannot always deliver ecstasy or hope, the great poets, argues Bonnefoy, are pledged to 'intensity as such', sustained by 'une m lancolie ardente'. |