Cinepoems And Others by Benjamin Fondane

Cinepoems And Others by Benjamin Fondane

Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerful lyric poetic voice; a renegade surrealist who was also a highly original existential philosopher; a self-consciously Jewish poet of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy in 1944 just before his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was murdered, yet whose poetry speaks of an overflowing plenitude. 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.

Benjamin Fondane (1898-1944) was a Romanian Jew who immigrated to France. He is the author of several collections of poetry and philosophical essays.

Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody has translated the work of French and Belgian poets, including Paul Valü¾Ž–”¼ry and Benjamin Fondane. In 2013, he was awarded the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation.

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ISBN 13	9781590179000
ISBN 10	1590179005
Title	Cinepoems And Others
Author	Benjamin Fondane
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2016-05-17
Number of pages	232
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