{"product_id":"stles-victor-segalen-9780819568328","title":"St鑞es","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst English critical edition of a bilingual masterpiece with facsimile and facing-page translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work (2008)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictor Segalen has come to be widely recognized in recent years as one of the luminaries of French modernism. Trained as a surgeon and Chinese interpreter, he wrote prolifically in a variety of genres. With this highly original collection of prose poems in French and Chinese, Segalen invented a new genre--the \"st鑞e-poem\"--in imitation of the tall stone tablets with formal inscriptions that he saw in China. His wry persona declaims these inscriptions like an emperor struggling to command his personal empire, drawing from a vast range of Chinese texts to explore themes of friendship, love, desire, gender roles, violence, exoticism, otherness, and selfhood. The result is a linguistically and culturally hybrid modernist poetics that is often ironic and at times haunting. Segalen's bilingual masterwork is presented here fully translated, in the most extensively annotated critical edition ever produced. It includes unpublished manuscript material, newly identified sources, commentaries on the Chinese, and a facsimile of the original edition as printed in Beijing in 1914. Volume 2 of this work is available online at www.wesleyan.edu\/wespress\/segalen2 and www.steles.org.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victor Segalen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819568325\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819568328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.26h x 9.21w x 1.16d","brand":"Victor Segalen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926499295487,"sku":"9780819568328","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_97a81798-ed96-4b23-8e8c-bf1b835d2112.jpg?v=1681083415","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stles-victor-segalen-9780819568328","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}