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In Persian mythology, Syngué Sabour is the name of a magic black stone, representing patience that welcomes and absorbs all the troubles and worries of the people talking to it. It is epitomized by a soldier who has been shot in the neck but who miraculously survives. He is now lying in his bed, in a coma, his wife by his side, nursing him while caring for their two daughters. In the early stages of his coma, she speaks gently to him, but as the...
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Since the 1960s, poetry in French has been understood in terms of two competing approaches: searching for 'presence' on the one hand, 'littéralité' -- refiguring the everyday -- on the other. Contemporary forms of both are found in this anthology, from the 'new lyricism' of Bonhomme and Maulpoix to the refracted politics of 'post-poetry' in Tarkos and Gleize. The dichotomy, however, quickly breaks down and many poets refuse to be categorised in...
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Marjoleine Boonstra visits the people who have translated this little masterpiece from French into Tibetan, Tamazight, Sami, and Nawat. All of these languages are under threat. Passionately enthusiastic language researches, teachers, and translators talk about how the observation of an alien prince on earth are interpreted in their own culture.
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"Félix Fénéon-- anarchist, art maven, literary instigator-- edited Rimbaud's illuminations and was the first to publish James Joyce in French. Over the course of 1906, he was also the author of 1,220 faits-divers that appeared in the Paris newspaper Le Matin. These three-line reports of petty theft, labor disputes, death, and naval exercises gone awry form a fascinating mosaic of that era in France. In Illustrated Three-line Novels, Joanna Neborsky's...
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