Selected Poems

Name: Selected Poems
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SKU: LSBOKAB049
Price: 40.0 USD
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Bosquet, Alain

40 USD

Date

1972

Category

Poetry

Description

Alain Bosquet. Selected Poems. 1972.

An English-language selection introducing one of France's most celebrated postwar poets. Translated by an extraordinary group including Samuel Beckett, Lawrence Durrell, Wallace Fowlie, and Jean and Elisabeth Malaquais, the volume captures Bosquet's philosophical wit, cosmopolitan imagination, and lyrical precision.

Condition: Very good.

Excerpt

For a while I became Heraclitus’s closest friend; I owe him, I believe, my fondness for parables. Later I visited St. Petersburg, but neither Gogol nor Pushkin was willing to listen to me. That was no tragedy for in the meantime The wise men of China had invited me to visit them. No, I cannot fulfill my duty to become by own contemporary.