This collection of later works by the French poet Michel Galiana (1933-99)features his usual marvelous series of striking images in a bilingual edition with English and French on opposite pages. Illustrated throughout.
Like his previous books, "Milestones: Millionaires 1978-1989" reveals a quiet, introspective side of poet Michael Galiana's life. It was discovered as a handwritten manuscript following his death in 1999. This edition is presented in both English and French.
Mythologies" contains two of Michel Galiana's finest works, the long poems "Fighting Hercules" and "The Triumph of Hermes." MICHEL GALIANA (1933 - 1999) published a novel, "The Shadow Theatre" (1966) similar to Voltaire's philosophical tales; two essays, entitled "Beyond your Homeland" (1987) and "Treatise on Indifference" (1989), in which he proclaims that he wants no part in the collective extravagances forced on us by the state and society and extolls indifference as a virtue, excluding however revolt, which generates new kinds of alienation; and two collections of narratives, "A Trip to the West Suburbs" (1991) and "The Cry" (1993), unfolding on the borderland between two worlds, the objective one and the haunted domain which everybody may call his own and is perhaps the best part of him. His other works include "The Dream in the Orchard," "In Memoriam" (1991), and "Out of a Book of Hours" (1992). His brother and English translator, Christian SOUCHON, is a translator with the international organization OECD. He believes that only verses may translate verses and that a prose translation would be like a black and white photograph of a gorgeous colourful painting.
THE DREAM IN THE ORCHARD! In a series of thirty-five long poems, the masterful French writer here rejects the "real" world, and immerses the reader in a series of images taken from ancient mythology and fantasy. Christian Souchon has rendered his brother's verse into a marvelous series of images, presented on flanking pages in their outstanding French originals along with marvelously evocative English-language translations. Illustrated throughout. MICHEL GALIANA (1933-1999) wrote novels, poetry, essays, and criticism. His brother, Christian Souchon, is a translator with the international organization, OECD.
This collection of later works by the French poet Michel Galiana (1933-99)features his usual marvelous series of striking images in a bilingual edition with English and French on opposite pages. Illustrated throughout.
THE DREAM IN THE ORCHARD! In a series of thirty-five long poems, the masterful French writer here rejects the "real" world, and immerses the reader in a series of images taken from ancient mythology and fantasy. Christian Souchon has rendered his brother's verse into a marvelous series of images, presented on flanking pages in their outstanding French originals along with marvelously evocative English-language translations. Illustrated throughout. MICHEL GALIANA (1933-1999) wrote novels, poetry, essays, and criticism. His brother, Christian Souchon, is a translator with the international organization, OECD.
Avec Frêle bruit, Michel Leiris clôt La règle du jeu. Il a consacré trente-cinq ans à la rédaction d'un ouvrage dont le premier propos est de lier des données tirées de sa vie intime. Ce chercheur obstiné à se regarder lui-même peut affirmer qu'il voulait procéder, pour l'usage de quelques autres autant que pour le sien, à une mise en lumière aussi poussée que possible, à partir de l'échantillon humain qu'il est. Et ce n'est pas seulement par goût mais jugeant qu'en l'espèce l'investigation rationnelle ne pouvait faire plus qu'écarter des ombres que, sans vergogne, il a laissé la poésie primer l'enchaînement logique. Dans ce livre-ci, construit presque musicalement, se mêlent donc à des souvenirs proches ou lointains, et à des idées soit anciennes soit venues chemin faisant, des tentatives plus ou moins expresses d'arriver à des moments de transparence en manipulant le langage pris en soi plus que comme instrument d'un commerce. Aspiration au merveilleux, volonté d'engagement dans la lutte contre les iniquités sociales, désir d'universalisme qui l'a porté à des contacts directs avec des cultures autres que la sienne, telles sont les couleurs qui semblent dominer dans le jeu de cet écrivain, amené par sa conscience aigüe de la marche du temps à essayer maints moyens de conjurer l'horreur dont l'a empli très tôt la perspective de son anéantissement.
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