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Black Mirror: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
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Artikel-Nr:
9780882681283
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2010
Seiten:
111
Autor:
Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
Gewicht:
204 g
Format:
226x152x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Born in Reims in 1907, Lecomte was the co-founder, with Rene Daumal and Roger Vailland, of the literary and artistic movement Le Grand Jeu. Three issues of the group's magazine, Le Grand Jeu, appeared between 1928 and 1930. The Surrealists reacted to Le Grand Jeu with hostility. The group fell apart in 1932.
Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1907-1943) is considered one of the eminent poets of the Surrealist period. The visionary, sardonic, and often outrageous poems in this bilingual edition represent the first presentation of his work in English. With René Daumal he was the founder of the literary movement and magazine "Le Grand Jeu," the essence of which he defined as "the impersonal instant of eternity in emptiness." "The glimpse of eternity in the void," writes Rattray in the Introduction, "was to send Daumal to Hinduism, the study of Yoga philosophy, and Sanskrit. It sent Lecomte on an exploration of what he called a 'metaphysics of absence.' " Rattray, a poet acclaimed for his translations of Artaud, keeps intact the power and originality of Gilbert-Lecomte's work.