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A wide-ranging study of Prevert's promethean imagination & creativity in the interwoven realms of theatre, film, poetry, art, photography, and song, thisbook seeks to demonstrate the originality of a genial fabricator of image and word whose essential focus, unpretentious yet urgently felt, ever remains the quality of our daily being-in-the-world, the possibility of our self-transformation, the stunning availability of joy and love and freedom."
Focusing on the career of the surrealist poet Jacques Prevert, this book explores the stylistic and thematic currents that prevailed in French films of the 1930s. Prevert's involvement with the surrealists, his contribution to the avant-grade theatre company Groupe Octobre, and his unique collaboration with Marcel Carne are examined.
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In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prevert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 by Les Editions de Minuit, a press with its origins in the Underground...
These versions are as entertaining and as instructive as their originals. They delight without damaging one's sense of a necessary strangeness. --Richard Howard.
The most comprehensive Jacques Prevert sampler, covering the full range of his poetic works, in a fully dual language (French -English) format. Wonderfully translated by Norman R. Shapiro who has caught the full range of Prevert's irony, puns, and word play that has enchanted French readers throughout the 20th century. Jacques Prevert (1900-1977) was a poet and screenwriter who actively participated in the Surrealist movement as well as the Rue du Chateau group with Raymond Queneau and Marcel Duchamp. His poetry is taught in schools in France and his works appear in countless anthologies throughout the world. This comprehensive anthology, drawing from all time periods of his work, is the first in English to present a picture of the whole of Prevert's poetic achievement.
Poems by Jacques Prévert, with poems in English adapted from Prévert's poems and with an introduction by J. T. Barbarese
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