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Hervé Prudon: Devant la mort. Poésie

Auteur de la Série Noire, Hervé Prudon est mort en 2017 d’un cancer annoncé. Les deux derniers mois de sa vie, il les a consacrés à écrire des poèmes qui témoignent avec lucidité de son dernier combat : revendication de la solitude, détachement, conscience de la mort qui vient, souci de celle qui reste seule. Ils dessinent au-delà de la mort la personnalité d’un homme radical, porteur d’une douleur existentielle qu’il cherchait à conjurer.

Écrits dans l’urgence, ces textes brefs et nerveux acquièrent un supplément de vigueur, de force et d’acuité. En dépit des circonstances, des traits d’humour viennent tempérer la sèche gravité du propos, loin de tout cynisme, de tout pathos. Ce court testament est à la fois une leçon de stoïcisme et un morceau de tendresse humaine à vif.

«Atteint d’un cancer diagnostiqué en août 2017, Hervé Prudon se savait condamné. Durant les deux derniers mois de sa vie, où il lui était devenu impossible d’écrire le roman qu’il avait ébauché, il remplira deux carnets de moleskine noirs d’une écriture tremblée. Une centaine de poèmes qui tous parlent de la mort à venir et frappent par leur lucidité et l’urgence dont ils sont un puissant témoignage. Ils dessinent en creux la personnalité d’un homme, porteur d’une douleur existentielle qu’il chercha toute sa vie à conjurer par la légèreté.» Sylvie Péju

Hervé Prudon, né le 27 décembre 1950 à Sannois (Seine-et-Oise) et mort le 15 octobre 2017 à Paris, est un écrivain, journaliste et scénariste français, spécialisé dans le roman policier et la littérature d’enfance et de jeunesse. Hervé Prudon laisse derrière lui une vingtaine de romans et des poèmes.

 

j’étais tremblé trempé de mon septembre
j’ânonnais dans ma tête en scaphandre
un dictionnaire de rimes à rien
mourir était mon programme court
écrire déjà était mort de fatigue et silence
c’était un premier pas vers ma longue absence

 

Hervé Prudon
Devant la mort
Littérature française – Poésie
ISBN-10 2072819849
Gencode : 9782072819841
Code distributeur : G02336
Collection Blanche, Gallimard
Parution : 11-10-2018
Langue : Français
128 pages
140 x 205 mm
Prix 14,50€

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Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment by Juliana Spahr

In 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Présence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris.

So he sent the assembled a telegram.

“Any Negro-American who travels abroad today must either not discuss race conditions in the United States or say the sort of thing which our State Department wishes the world to believe.”

Taking seriously Du Bois’s allegation, Juliana Spahr breathes new life into age-old questions as she explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. What is the relationship between literature and politics? Can writing be revolutionary? Can art be autonomous, or is escape from nations and nationalisms impossible?

Du Bois’s Telegram brings together a wide range of institutional forces implicated in literary production, paying special attention to three eras of writing that sought to defy political orthodoxies by contesting linguistic conventions: avant-garde modernism of the early twentieth century; social-movement writing of the 1960s and 1970s; and, in the twenty-first century, the profusion of English-language works incorporating languages other than English.

Spahr shows how these literatures attempted to assert their autonomy, only to be shut down by FBI harassment or coopted by CIA and State Department propagandists. Liberal state allies such as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations made writers complicit by funding multiculturalist works that celebrated diversity and assimilation while starving radical anti-imperial, anti-racist, anti-capitalist efforts.

Spahr does not deny the exhilarations of politically engaged art. But her study affirms a sobering reality: aesthetic resistance is easily domesticated.

Juliana Spahr is Professor of English at Mills College. She is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including The Winter the Wolf Came, Well Then There Now, and Response, winner of the National Poetry Series Award. She is also the editor, with Claudia Rankine, of American Women Poets in the 21st Century and received the O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Du Bois’s Telegram.
Literary Resistance and State Containment
by Juliana Spahr
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780674986961
ISBN-13: 978-0674986961
Publisher: Harvard University Press
October 23, 2018
Hardcover
256 pages
$29.95

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Literary Resistance
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Nieuwe editie Verzamelde gedichten J. Slauerhoff

Dit najaar verscheen een volledig herziene leeseditie van de Verzamelde gedichten van Slauerhoff (1898-1938), aangevuld met meer dan 100 nieuwe gedichten.

In 1941, vijf jaar na de dood van J. Slauerhoff, verschenen zijn Verzamelde gedichten, samengesteld door de jonge letterkundige Kees Lekkerkerker. Zijn Verzamelde gedichten beleefden bijna tachtig jaar lang, vrijwel onveranderd, herdruk op herdruk – ondanks het feit dat er inmiddels flink wat onbekende gedichten waren opgedoken.

In deze nieuwe editie van de Verzamelde gedichten is alle poëzie van Slauerhoff voor het eerst in de juiste volgorde samengebracht. Alle door hem gebundelde en verspreid gepubliceerde gedichten en alle later in de nalatenschap aangetroffen poëzie zijn aangevuld met circa honderd niet eerder in de Verzamelde gedichten opgenomen verzen, waaronder Slauerhoffs studenten poëzie, vertalingen, en gewraakte spotverzen. Uit Verzamelde gedichten blijkt wederom dat Slauerhoff de grootste dichter van zijn generatie was. (uitgever)

J. Slauerhoff Verzamelde gedichten
Auteur: J. Slauerhoff
Bezorgd door Hein Aalders en Menno Voskuil
Nijgh & Van Ditmar Uitg.
September 2018
1152 pagina’s
Hardcover
ISBN 9789038804002
€ 34,99

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Gérard de Nerval: Notre-Dame de Paris – Poéme

 

 Notre-dame de Paris – Poéme

Notre-Dame est bien vieille : on la verra peut-être
Enterrer cependant Paris qu’elle a vu naître;
Mais, dans quelque mille ans, le Temps fera broncher
Comme un loup fait un bœuf, cette carcasse lourde,
Tordra ses nerfs de fer, et puis d’une dent sourde
Rongera tristement ses vieux os de rocher!

Bien des hommes, de tous les pays de la terre
Viendront, pour contempler cette ruine austère,
Rêveurs, et relisant le livre de Victor:
—Alors ils croiront voir la vieille basilique,
Toute ainsi qu’elle était, puissante et magnifique,
Se lever devant eux comme l’ombre d’un mort!

Gérard de Nerval
(1808 – 1855)
Notre-Dame de Paris – Poéme
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Leonard Cohen: The Flame

The final collection of poetry from Leonard Cohen’s body of work, introduced by son Adam Cohen. Plumbs the depths of humanity’s darkest questions with a sense of yearning. Illustrations and notes throughout

The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen’s last poems, selected and ordered by the author in the final months of his life. Featuring lyrics, prose pieces and illustrations, the book also contains an extensive selection from Cohen’s notebooks, which he kept in poetic form throughout his life, and offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist and thinker.

An enormously powerful final chapter in Cohen’s storied literary career, The Flame showcases the full range of Leonard Cohen’s lyricism, from the exquisitely transcendent to the darkly funny. By turns devastatingly sad and winningly strange, these are the works of a poet and lyricist who has plumbed the depths of our darkest questions and come up wanting, yearning for more.

Leonard Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. He went on to publish 12 more books, including two celebrated novels and gained worldwide recognition as an iconic singer-songwriter.

He released 14 studio albums, including three in the last years of his life when he also became one of the most acclaimed arena performing artists in the world.

Among his numerous honours, he is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 2011, the inaugural New England PEN Award for Excellence in Lyrics 2012, the 2016 Juno Awards for Song of the Year and Album of the Year, and he has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the US Songwriters Hall of Fame. He died in November 2016.

The Flame
by Leonard Cohen (Author),
Adam Cohen (Introduction)
Language: English
Available as Hardback,
eBook, Downloadable audio
288 pages
Publisher: Canongate Books
Main edition 2 Oct. 2018
ISBN-10: 9781786893130

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Biografie Oskar Kokoschka von Rüdiger Görner

Rüdiger Görner stellt in seiner Biografie den Gesamtkünstler Oskar Kokoschka in all seiner faszinierenden und widersprüchlichen Vielschichtigkeit dar.

Dramen, Briefe und Essays zeugen auch von den bedeutenden schriftstellerischen Qualitäten dieses großen Malers. Die Musik war zentral für seine Arbeit. Und als Pädagoge begründete Kokoschka 1953 schließlich die “Schule des Sehens”. Oskar Kokoschka erreichte trotz schwerer Verletzungen im Ersten Weltkrieg ein biblisches Alter. Görner zeichnet Kokoschkas Weg vom Bürgerschreck und Hungerkünstler zum wohlhabenden Weltbürger und Jahrhundertkünstler ganz nah an dessen Werk nach, denn Kokoschkas Leben erzählt man, in dem man sein Werk erzählt – und umgekehrt.

Rüdiger Görner, geboren 1957 in Rottweil, ist Professor für Neuere Deutsche und vergleichende Literatur an der Queen Mary University of London. Gründer des Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature und Gründungsdirektor des Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations. Träger des Deutschen Sprachpreises, des Reimar Lüstpreises der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung und des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Bei Zsolnay erschienen Rainer Maria Rilke. Im Herzwerk der Sprache (2004), Georg Trakl. Dichter im Jahrzehnt der Extreme (2014) und Oskar Kokoschka. Jahrhundertkünstler (2018).

Titel: Oskar Kokoschka
Autor: Rüdiger Görner
Jahrhundertkünstler
Buch
Gebundene Ausgabe
350 Seiten
24. September 2018
Verlag: Paul Zsolnay Verlag
Sprache: Deutsch
ISBN-10: 9783552059054
ISBN-13: 978-3552059054
€ 28,00

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Die erste Biografie seit drei Jahrzehnten: Rüdiger Görner zeigt den großen Maler Oskar Kokoschka in all seiner Vielschichtigkeit
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