Poetry and Photography by Yves Bonnefoy

Poetry and Photography

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Poetry and Photography

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Poetry and Photography

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The international community of letters mourned the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and published a dozen major collections of poetry in verse and prose, several books of dream-like tales, and numerous studies of literature and art. His oeuvre has been translated into scores of languages, and he himself was a celebrated translator of Shakespeare, Yeats, Keats, and Leopardi.

Poetry and Photography is Bonnefoy's seminal essay on the intricate connections between the two fields as they play out against a background of major works in the history of literature. Bonnefoy is concerned not just with new concepts that photography introduces to the world of images, but also with the ways in which works like Maupassant's "The Night" perpetuate these concepts. A short, critical text on different forms of artistic creation, masterfully translated by Chris Turner, the volume is an invigorating read.
Book Details
Publisher:
Seagull Books
ISBN:
9780857424259
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
64
Authors:
Yves Bonnefoy
Published Date:
2017-06-15
Language:
English
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About Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) was a French poet, essayist, and translator born in Tours. His first major collection was Du Mouvement et de l'Immobilité de Douve (Mercure de France, 1953). Elected to the Collège de France in 1981, he held the Chair of Comparative Studies of the Poetic Function until 1993, and he taught at Yale, Brandeis, and the City University of New York, among others. He received the Prix Goncourt de la poésie in 1987, the Franz Kafka Prize in 2007, and the Griffin Trust Lifetime Recognition Award in 2011. He translated Shakespeare, Yeats, and Petrarch into French and wrote extensively on art and poetics.

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