商品簡介
Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerfully lyric poetic style; a near-surrealist who embraced and produced his own version of existential philosophy; a Romanian poet who wrote in French; a self-consciously Jewish poet of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy just before his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, where he was murdered, yet whose poetry speaks of a plenitude, an overflowing. After Fondane’s death, the poetry might have been forgotten had not writers like E. M. Cioran kept the memory of the work alive, and in France today, Fondane’s poetry is again widely available. This first American collection of Fondane’s poetry includes his surrealist “Cine-poems,” philosophical meditations, and poems that, in their secular/mystical Judaism, confront the calamity—and imaginative triumph—of European Jewry.
Poems included in this collection are translated by Mitchell Abidor, Marianne Bailey, E.M. Cioran, Joseph Donahue, Eric Freedman, Henry King, Andrew Rubens, Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, and Leonard Schwartz
作者簡介
Benjamin Fondane (1898–1944), born Benjamin Wechsler, was a French-Romanian intellectual and surrealist poet. Born in Romania, Fondane fled to France in 1923 to escape anti-Semitism. In France, he became part of a vibrant philosophical and intellectual network of both native French and diverse European foreigners that included Marxists, Catholics, Protestants, surrealists, and existentialists. Fondane also spent time in Buenos Aires, where he was invited by Victoria Ocampo to give lectures on avant-garde French cinema and on the existentialist philosopher Lev Shestov. Fondane returned to France where he worked as a writer, philosopher, and poet until his arrest in 1944, when he was sent to Drancy internment camp before being deported to Auschwitz, where he was killed.
Leonard Schwartz is the author of several poetry collections, including IF, At Element, The Library of Seven Readings, and A Message Back and Other Furors. He teaches poetics at Evergreen State College in Washington.
