To That Which Ends Not: Threnody Contributor(s): Deguy, Michel (Author), Harvey, Robert (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1947980564 ISBN-13: 9781947980563 Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General |
Dewey: 841.914 |
LCCN: 2018018751 |
Physical Information: 0.29" H x 6" W x 9" (0.42 lbs) 124 pages |
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Publisher Description: This stunningly singular--indeed all but unclassifiable--work is neither simply an elegy for the poet and philosopher Michel Deguy's wife of forty years nor simply a work of mourning. There is almost nothing here, in Deguy's sharp poetic prose and philosophical ruminations, of emotion recounted in tranquility. Rather, these often astonishing pages etch the jagged edges of anguish experienced in the immediate aftermath of the profoundly affecting death of one's beloved. In these fragments written from deep within the solitude of mourning, the entire horizon of life and love shudders and falls prey to the erosion of meaning caused by the interruption of death. Here memories and intimate details from forty years of shared life lend urgency to philosophical exegesis and analysis, carried out in dialogue with his own work and with the tradition. Memories send him rummaging through his books, excavating his oeuvre for traces of a presence now marked by absence. And his attentiveness to life and language sends him into the traditions of poetry and thought that have informed his work for decades, from Homer and Heraclitus to Heidegger, Baudelaire, Blanchot, Derrida, and Nancy. Robert Harvey's accurate and astute translation and notes are always attentive to Deguy's allusiveness and linguistic invention. Stuart Kendall |
Contributor Bio(s): Deguy, Michel: - Michel Deguy is a poet and Professor Emeritus of philosophy and literature at Université de Paris VIII (Vincennes at Saint-Denis).He is past president of the Collège International de Philosophie (1989-1992), the Maison des écrivains, and the Centre International de Poésie (Marseille). Deguy is founding editor of the journal, Po&sie and an editorial board member of both Critique and Les Temps modernes. After the Fénéon, Max Jacob, and Mallarmé prizes for various works, Deguy received the Grand Prix de Poésie in 1989 and, for Po&sie, the Encyclopedia Universalis prize. Among Deguy's 21st-century books are La Raison poétique (2000), Desolatio (2007), L'état de la désunion (Galaade, 2010), Poésie et écologie (2016), L'envergure des comparses (2017) and Poèmes et Tombeau pour Yves Bonnefoy (2018).Harvey, Robert: - Robert Harvey is Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University. His research and teaching deal with twentieth- & twenty-first century literatures & philosophy, critical theory, history of ideas, relations between philosophy & literature in an ethical context, terror & surveillance. He has written extensively on Jean-François Lyotard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marguerite Duras, Marcel Duchamp and Michel Deguy and has translated Lyotard, Deguy, Derrida, Foucault, Ricoeur, and other French thinkers. Among his books are De l'exception à la règle. USA Patriot Act (Éditions Lignes, 2006), Witnessness: Beckett, Dante, Levi and the Foundations of Ethics (Continuum, 2010), and Sharing Common Ground: A Space for Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2017). Harvey is a past Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie. |