La table - Softcover

PONGE (Francis).

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2070112063 ISBN 13: 9782070112067

Publisher: Gallimard, 1991

Synopsis

pet. in-4, broché, couverture rempliée, 113 pp., fac-similé. Présentée par Jean Thibaudeau. Edition originale de 1991 numérotée sur vergé Labeur, celui-ci un des 100 hors commerce. Très bon état.

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Review

The last of Ponge's published works, and the final volume to receive an English translation, The Table invariably carries the tone of an author returning to the very heart of his vocation through the things that make his utterances possible. It is his singular achievement to have submerged so fixedly into the world of everyday objects and coaxed from it a new cosmogony of language.--Erik Morse "The Times Literary Supplement "

About the Author

Francis Ponge (1899-1988) was both a giant of French 20th-century poetry and one of its humblest practitioners. The poet of "things," he practiced a poetic contemplation--usually in the form of his own unique brand of hesitant, searching prose poem--of the everyday objects that share our existence. He did not so much reinvent the shell, cigarette, soap, pebble, sun, oyster or asparagus, as forge and share with them a new language.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gallimard
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2070112063
• ISBN 13: 9782070112067
• Binding: Paperback