Poetry books from France
Recommended poetry books (3)
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
If you are into poetry here are some poetry books from France for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust EN
Description:
The first installment of the French author's multivolume autobiographical novel, originally published in 1913, in which he recalls his childhood and first infatuation.
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L'odeur des pierres mouillées by Léa Rivière FR
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Avec L'odeur des pierres mouillées, Léa Rivière tisse des mondes dont on ne peut jamais vraiment dire s'ils ont toujours été là ou s'ils sont sur le point d'advenir. Elle fabrique des histoires qui mêlent traditions, science-fiction, écologies trans, relations aux ancêtres et interdépendances des villages. Du dialogue poétique qui flirte avec la performance à l'épopée wittigienne, Léa Rivière révèle une écriture précise et prot&eacut... continue
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War and the Iliad by Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff EN
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War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death. Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one of her most celebrated works--an inspired analysis of Homer's epic that presents a nightmare vision of combat as a machine in which all humanity is lost. First published on the eve of war in 1939, the essay has often been read as a pacifist manifesto. Rachel Bespaloff was a French contemporary of Weil's whose work similarly explored the compl... continue