Paroles: Selected Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (French Edition) - Softcover

Jacques Prévert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872860426 ISBN 13: 9780872860421

Publisher: City Lights Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prévert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 by Les Editions de Minuit, a press with its origins in the Underground, Paroles met with enormous success, and there were several hundred thousand copies in print by the time these first translations in English were published by City Lights in 1958.

Today Prévert speaks out in a voice still attuned to our times, for the human condition (which is always his focus) has not changed. In fact, man's inhumanity to man would seem to have intensified, making these poems ever more touching, ever more prescient.

About this title

About the Author:

Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. His poetry is popular in French education and is films formed a part of the poetic realist movement.

Review:

Almost
And The Fete Continues
At The Florist's
Autumn
Barbara
Birds, At Random
The Bouquet
Breakfast
The Combat With The Angel
The Conductor
Despair Is Seated On A Bench
The Discourse On Peace
The Dunce
The Eclipse
Familial
Flowers And Wreathes
Hard Times
Homecoming
I Am As I Am
I've Seen Some Of Them
Inventory
La Belle Saison
The Last Supper
Lazy Morning
The New Order
One Shouldn't
Osiris, Or The Flight In Egypt
Pater Noster
Picasso's Magic Lantern
Picasso's Promenade
Place Du Carrousel
Quartier Libre
The Red Horse
Rue De Seine
School Of Fine Arts
The Shattered Mirror
Song
Song In The Blood
Song Of The Jailer
The Straight And Narrow Road
To Paint The Portrait Of A Bird
Traveling Show
Vincent's Lament
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0872860426
• ISBN 13: 9780872860421
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 159