The description for this book, Poems of Rene Char, will be forthcoming.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Poems of Rene Char (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, 8)

Literature & Fiction

Char, René

Poetry

Princeton University Press

The description for this book, Poems of Rene Char, will be forthcoming.
Originally published in 1976.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet’s wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, the editors have chosen the voices of seventeen poets and translators (Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Cid Corman, Eugene Jolas, W.S. Merwin, William Carlos Williams, and James Wright, to name a few), in homage to a writer long held in highest esteem by the literary avant-garde.

Selected Poems of Rene Char (English and French Edition)

CAWS, Mary Ann

Olas, Tina

New Directions

Hypnos (The French List)

Hailed by the poet Paul Eluard as an "absolute masterpiece" upon its first appearance in 1946, René 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.

Seagull Books

One of the foremost poets of the French Resistance, René Char has been hailed by Donald Revell as “the conscience of modern French poetry.” Translated by Mark Hutchinson, The Inventors is a companion volume to Char’s critically acclaimed Hypnos. It gathers more than forty poems that represent a cross-section of Char’s mature work, spanning from 1936 to 1988. All three genres of Char’s work are represented here: verse poems, prose poems, and the abrupt, lapidary propositions for which he is best known. These maxima sententia combine the terseness of La Rochefoucauld with the probing and sometimes riddling character of the fragments of Heraclitus. The Inventors includes a brief introduction to Char’s life and work, as well as a series of notes on the backstories of the works, which explain allusions that may not be immediately familiar to the English-speaking reader. These new translations stay true to the originals, while at the same time conveying much of the music and beauty of the French poems. Praise for René Char “Char, I believe, is a poet who will tower over twentieth-century French poetry.”—George Steiner

The Inventors: And Other Poems (The French List)

<div>Now in paperback,&nbsp;René 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, René 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.</div>

Biographies & Memoirs

No Siege is Absolute: Versions of Rene Char (English and French Edition)

History & Criticism

Lost Roads Pub

French/English parallel texts. Char is regarded as one of the most important modern French poets. Admired by Heidegger for the profundity of his poetic philosophy, he was also a hero of the French Resistance. Associated with the surrealist movement, he wrote poetry which confronts the major twentieth century moral, political, and artistic concerns with a simplicity of vision and expression that owes much to the poet-philosophers of ancient Greece.

The Dawn Breakers: Les Matinaux (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, 2)

Bloodaxe Books

Ralentir Travaux: Slow Under Construction

Éluard, Paul

BRETON, André

Small Pr Distribution

This bilingual volume, with the French and English on facing pages, is a translation of a book of poems by René Char, a 20th-century French poet known for his work of great beauty. Fierce, lyrical, searching, Char is a gifted writer in whose poems we encounter a range of voices: those of a leader in the French Resistance, a visionary of his native Provence, an elegist, a lover, a mystic of the night, an evocative and at times riddling aphorist.

The Word as Archipelago

Omnidawn

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Poems of Rene Char (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, 8)

Poems of Rene Char (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, 8)

Selected Poems of Rene Char (English and French Edition)

Hypnos (The French List)

The Inventors: And Other Poems (The French List)

Hypnos (The French List)

No Siege is Absolute: Versions of Rene Char (English and French Edition)

The Dawn Breakers: Les Matinaux (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, 2)

Ralentir Travaux: Slow Under Construction

The Word as Archipelago