On the motion and immobility of Douve =: Du mouvement et de l'immobilite´ de Douve (Bloodaxe contemporary French poets)

by Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) was a central figure in post-war French culture, with a lifelong fascination with the problems of translation. Language, for him, was a visceral, intensely material element in our existence, and yet the abstract quality of words distorts the immediate, material quality of our contact with the world. This concern with what separates words from an essential truth hidden in objects involved him in wide-ranging philosophical...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852241322
• ISBN13: 9781852241322
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.5" x 8.5"