Guillaume Apollinaire

Zone is the fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett's fifty-year engagement with the work of France's greatest modern poet. This bilingual edition of Apollinaire's poetry represents the full range of his achievement from traditional lyric verse to the pathbreaking visual poems he called calligrams, from often-anthologized classics to hitherto-untranslated gems, from poems of cosmic breadth to a poem about his shoes. Including an introduction by the distinguished scholar Peter Read, helpful endnotes, a preface, and an annotated bibliography by Padgett, this new edition of Apollinaire stands out not only for its compact and judicious selection of the essential poems but also as the work of an important American poet. The Washington Post has said, "No praise can be too high for Ron Padgett's translations."

'One day in 1907 I was rounding the corner from Boulevard des Italiens to rue Gramont when a fluttering white piece of paper caught my eye. I grabbed it on the fly, by instinct, as if it were a theatre bill. At that moment, raising my eyes to the fourth floor of the nearest building, I saw a masked figure duck back and cry: "Hold on to that paper, Sir! I'll be right down for it."' Le flaneur des deux rives was published in the year of Apollinaire's death. More than a century later, the poet's ode to Paris is rendered in English for the first time. Alex Andriesse is a poet and has translated, notably, Chateaubriand’s Memoirs from Beyond the Grave (NYRB Classics).

L'Enchanteur pourrissant de Guillaume Apollinaire est une oeuvre fascinante qui m le avec brio po sie surr aliste et prose exp rimentale. Ce texte avant-gardiste, publi en 1909, marque un tournant dans la litt rature fran aise du XXe si cle. Apollinaire y revisite la l gende arthurienne en se concentrant sur la figure nigmatique de Merlin l'Enchanteur. L'histoire d bute par l'enterrement vivant de Merlin, victime d'un sortil ge de la f e Viviane. Emprisonn dans sa tombe, l'Enchanteur entame un voyage onirique travers le temps et l'espace. Sa voix r sonne depuis les profondeurs, attirant une galerie de personnages mythologiques et l gendaires. Chacun vient dialoguer avec le magicien d chu, cr ant une symphonie de voix qui transcende les poques. Apollinaire d ploie tout son talent de po te moderniste pour tisser un r cit o le r el et le fantastique s'entrem lent. La narration non lin aire et la prose po tique cr ent un univers symbolique riche et complexe. Les th mes de l'amour, de la mort et de la cr ation artistique s'entrechoquent dans un tourbillon d'images surr alistes. L'auteur puise dans un vaste r pertoire mythologique, convoquant des figures aussi diverses qu'H l ne de Troie, la Reine de Saba ou encore Morgane la f e. Cette juxtaposition audacieuse de personnages issus de diff rentes traditions litt raires participe l'aspect exp rimental de l'oeuvre. L'Enchanteur pourrissant est bien plus qu'une simple r criture de la l gende de Merlin. C'est une exploration profonde de la condition humaine, de la puissance et des limites du langage, et de la nature m me de la cr ation artistique. Apollinaire y jette les bases de ce qui deviendra le surr alisme, influen ant toute une g n ration d' crivains et d'artistes. Cette oeuvre novatrice d fie les conventions litt raires de son poque, m lant prose et vers libres, r alit et r ve, dans une symphonie verbale envo tante. L'Enchanteur pourrissant reste un t moignage puissant de l'audace cr atrice d'Ap

Written in his Bastille cell in the years between 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, this is the first English translation of Marquis de Sade's collection of short works, Stories, Tales, and Fables. Essential reading for all Sade devotees, Stories, Tales, and Fables is an introduction for those who are not yet familiar with the work of this controversial French literary innovator. The short works in this collection range from the dramatic novella, Dorci, to comic tales such as The Duped Judge. Whether he is writing bawdy, exuberant comedies, supernatural tales, or human tragedies, Sade is essentially a moralist, and his exploration of the darker side of human nature remains as relevant to our society as it was to his own. Psychologically perceptive and defiantly unconventional, Stories, Tales, and Fables reveals the compelling force of Sade's narrative powers. An accomplished and artful fiction writer, Sade, like all great writers, asks penetrating questions about society, life, and humanity. This collection also includes a selection of Sade's non-fiction, ranging from his insightful survey of the novelist's art, Some Thoughts on the Novel, to his Last Will and Testament, as well as several essays about Sade's work by renowned authors including Apollinaire, Heinrich Heine, Andr Masson, Anatole France, and Paul Eluard.

Guillaume Apollinairen Alcools (1913) on ranskankielisen runouden klassikko. Sen vaikutus koko 1900-luvun länsimaiseen kirjallisuuteen on ollut valtava. Vertausten, metaforien ja symbolien käyttö sijoittaa hänet ranskalaisen runouden jatkumossa tärkeälle symbolistien jälkeiselle ja surrealisteja edeltävälle paikalle. Runoissa tehdään matkaa Pariisin kaduilla, Reininlaaksossa, mytologisissa joutomaissa, ellei sitten viruta vankisellissä, jonne kirjailija joutui epäiltynä Mona Lisan varastamisesta. Mennyt, nykyhetki ja tulevaisuus sekoittuvat alkoholin, juopumuksen ja ihmeellisen sävyttämäksi todellisuudeksi. Ranskalaisen runouden merkkiteos julkaistaan nyt ensi kertaa kokonaisuudessaan suomeksi. Suomentaja Janne Salo on kääntänyt kaunokirjallisuutta yli kahdenkymmenen vuoden ajan. Salon intohimoja ovat ranskalainen 1900-luvun alun runous ja proosa, erityisesti surrealistien oudonhehkuvat tekstit. Vuonna 2021 hänet palkittiin Yleisradion Kääntäjäkarhulla kokoamastaan ja suomentamastaan André Bretonin runojen valikoimasta.

A revelatory volume of two of the twentieth century's great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov never met, but they have much in common. Both inventive luminaries of Modernism, they played a central role in the avant-garde movements of their time and worked closely with the most important visual artists around them. Written with exhilarating freedom and creativity, their verse has continued to inspire poets to the present day. Acclaimed translator and poet Robert Chandler offers a unique selection from both poets' work in vivid new translations. Showcasing their most direct, heartfelt verse alongside their form-breaking innovations, this volume reveals the deep insight with which these two poets wrote about love, friendship, art, revolution, famine and war.