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This bilingual selection is the first volume of Fondane's poetry to appear in English, and it includes a broad sample of his work, from the coruscating and comic cinepoems of his surrealist years, to philosophical meditations, to poems that in their secular and mystical Judaism confront the historical calamity--and imaginative triumph--of European Jewry.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733207032081,"sku":"NGR9781590179000","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50977319256337,"sku":"GOR010248510","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51804118810897,"sku":"CIN1590179005G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1590179005.jpg?v=1750960124"},{"product_id":"existential-monday-book-benjamin-fondane-9781590178980","title":"Existential Monday","description":"\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Fondane-who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges's friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitz-was an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every border, \"a torture and a spur.\" Poet, critic, man of the theater, movie director, Fondane was the most daring of the existentialists, a metaphysical anarchist, affirming individual against those great abstractions that limit human freedom-the State, History, the Law, the Idea.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eExistential Monday\u003c\/i\u003e, the first selection of his philosophical work to appear in English, includes four of Fondane's most thought-provoking and important texts, \"Existential Monday and the Sunday of History,\" \"Preface for the Present Moment,\" \"Man Before History\" (co-translated by Andrew Rubens), and \"Boredom.\" Here Fondane, until now little-known except to specialists, emerges as one of the enduring French philosophers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50259941196049,"sku":"GOR008898159","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50297474646289,"sku":"CIN159017898XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52110991393041,"sku":"NGR9781590178980","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/159017898X.jpg?v=1750991956"},{"product_id":"trois-scenarii-paupieres-barre-fixe-mtasipoj-cinepoemes-book-benjamin-fondane-9782329043999","title":"Trois Scénarii. 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Fondane considerably revised his text during the dark years of occupied Paris, and it is this second \"\"edition without an end,\"\" left unfinished at the time of his deportation, that is translated here for the first time into English. 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