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Olivier Cadiot's Red, Green, and Black
Poetry. "The game is grammatical, but the arrow hits: a real corpse decomposes. Between repetition, tautology and quotation, falls dead silence. What seems a sort of ready-made language (in which Charles Bernstein's playfulness matches Cadiot's) turns out to be a carnival on top of 'catastrophe/catastrophic.' Need I add: a poem for our time?" -Rosmarie Waldrop.
Art Poetic'
A new book of poetry by one of the major young French poets.
Futur, ancien, fugitif
Rapide, rigoureux, imprévisible et implacable, irrésistiblement drôle et cependant inquiétant, moderne : ce livre contient la liste complète de ce qu’il faut faire en cas d’exil. Des conseils précis pour la fabrication d’objets simples à réaliser soi-même. Une rétrospective des choses qui ont eu lieu. Un manuel raisonné d’exercices poétiques. Un mémento des manières de table et des usages en général. Une réhabilitation de la mémoire cachée. Des descriptions de vies quotidiennes différentes. Une analyse des choses qui risquent de recommencer. Une technique d’observation des individus que vous connaissez. Un concentré des sensations individuelles et leur explication. Une méthode de dialogue à une voix. Un plan de visite de la nature.
A Mage in Summer
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Hybrid Genre. Translated by Anna Fitzgerald. In this, the most recent of Olivier Cadiot's visionary works to be translated, an unnamed protagonist, a mage, reflects on his own past and on history and just about everything else in a meditation set in motion by a photograph by Nan Goldin. In a narrative that transcends chronology and genre, Cadiot writes at the limit of prose, using photographic images to punctuate the text and the fleeting imagery of poetry to move through history and mythology. "Olivier Cadiot dances on a not-so-fine line between patter, satire, stream of consciousness, social commentary, poetry, prose, meditation, magic, performance, essay, comedy, melodrama, soliloquy, mania, dialectic, sublimity, tragedy. A MAGE IN SUMMER does delight in voices."--Charles Bernstein
Colonel Zoo
Is he a madman or the best butler ever? Cadiot's zany first novel takes the British weekend house paradigm and keeps shifting its terms. At this book's centre is the enigmatic 'I' - a butler headed for perfection or insanity - or perhaps both. With the impending Second World War as a background, the story, often funny and at times sinister, interweaves themes of servitude, espionage, escape and, ultimately, victory in an unsuspected quarter. Translated from the French by Cole Swensen.
Providence
Une créature se retourne contre son auteur ; un jeune homme devient brusquement une vieille dame ; une jeune fille monte à la capitale ; un homme âgé ne comprend plus rien.
Future, former, fugitive
Poetry. Translated from the French by Cole Swensen. A shipwreck. A desert Island. A Robinson. And the fragile line between memory and invention. A child's game. A bird guide. And step-by-step instructions for becoming a saint. In short, all you need to survive. This is a survivor's tale, complete with the doubt and derision that always greets such unusual cases. "Shh! Don't tell! Robinson Crusoe [or dead ringer] meets Comedy Francaise [division of poetry] in Cole Swensen's effervescent ["that's it exactly it"] translation of. Cadiot's witty. and majestice [don't take my word for it], yet stark FUTURE, FORMER, FUGITIVE. Find out what Paris already knows but holds tight to its tongue [best on bagatelle]: poetry is not safe with Cadiot at large"--Charles Bernstein. See also Cadiot's RED, GREEN & BLACK and ART POETIC', now available from SPD.
French XX Bibliography
This annual French XX Bibliography provides the most complete listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. Unique in its scope, thoroughness, and reliability of information, it has become an essential reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. The bibliography is divided into three major divisions: general studies, author subjects (arranged alphabetically), and cinema. Number 59 in the series contains 12,703 entries. William J. Thompson is Associate Professor of French and Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Programs in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Memphis.
Mediating Vulnerability
Mediating Vulnerability examines vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives. It responds to the vulnerability of species, their extinction but also their transformation. This tension between extreme danger and creativity is played out in literary studies through the pressures the discipline brings to bear on its own categories, particularly those of genre. Extinction and preservation on the one hand, transformation, adaptation and (re)mediation on the other. These two poles inform our comparative and interdisciplinary project. The volume is situated within the particular intercultural and intermedial context of contemporary cultural representation. Vulnerability is explored as a si...
The Imaginary: Word and Image
The imaginary as a critical concept originated in the twentieth century and has been theorized in diverse ways. It can be understood as a register of thought; the way we interpret the world; the universe of images, signs, texts, and objects of thought. In this volume, it is explored as it manifests itself in encounters between the verbal and the visual. A number of the essays brought together here explore the transposition of the imaginary in illustrations of texts and verbal renditions of images, as well as in comic books based on paintings or on verbal narratives. Others analyze ways in which books deal with film or television and investigate the imaginary in digital media. Special attention is paid to the imaginary of places and the relationship of the imaginary with memory. Written in English and French, these contributions by European and American scholars demonstrate the various concerns and approaches characteristic of contemporary scholarship in word and image studies.
