Cinepoems and Others by Fondane, Benjamin

Cinepoems and Others (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590179000)

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Cinepoems and Others by Fondane, Benjamin

Cinepoems and Others

$14.95
Cinepoems and Others by Fondane, Benjamin

Cinepoems and Others

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Benjamin Fondane
ISBN-10: 1590179005
ISBN-13: 9781590179000
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2016
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.50w x 0.60d
By Benjamin Fondane
By Benjamin Fondane
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Benjamin Fondane (1898-1944) was a Romanian Jew who emigrated to France in 1923 to pursue his love of French poetry and culture. While at law school in Bucharest, he spent most of his time writing for avant-garde literary periodicals. In Paris, Fondane worked at an insurance company and for Paramount Pictures while establishing himself as a poet and philosopher writing in French. Under the guidance of the Russian émigré philosopher Lev Shestov, Fondane became a leading exponent of existential philosophy in the 1930s. He also spent time in Argentina, at the invitation of Victoria Ocampo, lecturing on avant-garde film and directing a surrealist comedic film. In 1944, he was deported from France and killed at Auschwitz. In addition to Cinepoems and Others, New York Review Books publishes a volume of his selected essays, Existential Monday.

Leonard Schwartz's two most recent collections of poetry are At Element and IF, both from Talisman House. He hosts the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics.

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