Soap Contributor(s): Ponge, Francis (Author), Dunlop, Lane (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0804729557 ISBN-13: 9780804729550 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: " This text manages to be whimsical, political and philosophical all at once by behaving like its subject-- soap-- and slipping between modes." -- Matthea Harvey, Boston Review |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French |
Dewey: 848.914 |
LCCN: 98-13779 |
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.24" W x 7.76" (0.29 lbs) 104 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this work, begun during the German occupation, the eminent French poet and philosopher began to turn away from the small, perfect poem toward a much more open form, a kind of prose poem that recounted its own process of coming into being along with the final result. |