| A Flea the Size of Paris: The Old French "fatrasies" and "fatras" Contributor(s): Byrne, Ted (Translator), Mancini, Donato (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1733892435 ISBN-13: 9781733892438 Publisher: Black Widow Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 195 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Blending levity and malaise, carnival and apocalypse, sudden death and swarming vitality, the fatrasies and fatras are a small group of "impossible" poems, written between 1250 and 1330 in Northern France. In the 1920s, these poems caught the interest of Andr Breton and the other Paris-based Surrealists, who published George Bataille's translations of some of the fatrasies in La R volution surr aliste no.6. More than any other works of their time, the fatrasies and fatras created a new poetic language, one that captures, as Bettina Full writes, "the fullness, fleeting and mortal, of all human life." Often compared with avant-garde poetry of the twentieth century, these small marvels from the medieval world have never before been translated into English |