{"product_id":"wood-asleep-9781852244323","title":"Wood asleep","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n\tGérard Macé's work challenges the barriers between poetry and the \nessay. This play between and within genres is essential to his writing –\n which has been called \u003ci\u003eessay merveilleux\u003c\/i\u003e – and derives from a \nquestioning of language in its broadest sense. He is equally interested \nin the seductive musicality of words and in the remembered gestures \nwhich traced the hieroglyphs of Egypt and the calligraphic writing of \nthe Far East. His fascination with dictionaries, grammars and glossaries\n leads him off on journeys in which the real and the imaginary are \nfused, but without being confused. He slips between words like a \nmarvelling child constantly hoping that one day the world might be read \nlike an open book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\tThis edition brings together three series of prose poems, \u003ci\u003eLe Jardin des langues\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), \u003ci\u003eLe balcon de Babel\u003c\/i\u003e (1977) and \u003ci\u003eBois dormant\u003c\/i\u003e (1983). Other books by Macé have as their subject literary figures such as Rimbaud, Corbière, Nerval and Champollion, while \u003ci\u003eRome et le firmament\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLeçon de chinois\u003c\/i\u003e evoke places heavily charged with culture and history. Macé's other books include \u003ci\u003eVies antérieures\u003c\/i\u003e\n (1991), which takes up the relationship between memory and writing, in \nthe form of Lives (as in the Lives of saints or illustrious men), and \u003ci\u003eLa mémoire aime chasser dans le noir\u003c\/i\u003e\n (1993), which develops his fascination with the image – the poetic \nimage, dream image and photographic image. Timothy Mathews took over as \nGérard Macé's translator for this edition following the death of David \nKelley who had started work on the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\tJean-Pierre Richard is one of Europe's foremost literary critics. He \nhas written not only on French poets but also on Stendhal, Flaubert and \nProust. He has a wide following throughout Europe and the USA, and is \nadmired particularly for his approachable and sensuous accounts of \nFrench writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gérard Macé","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42961795940470,"sku":"9781852244323","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_070c2c34-a070-421b-a6ce-c53d9b37e65c.jpg?v=1767861022","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/wood-asleep-9781852244323","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}