Edward Hopper (Catalan and English Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555975445 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-18 |
| Language | : | Catalan |
DESCRIPTION:
Ernest Farrés is the author of three poetry collections. Edward Hopper won the Englantina d'Or of the Jocs Florals, a major Catalan poetry prize. Lawrence Venuti is a historian as well as a translator of Italian, French, and Catalan.
An arresting sequence of poems based on the life and paintings of Edward Hopper, in an award-winning translation from the Catalan
"I love this book" according to Peter Y. Sussman. I love this book. Such a seamless fabric of poems that simultaneously riff on a Hopper painting,on the Catalan author's imaginative reconstruction in his own context and with his own experiences and an exploration of greater, unseen forces that flow through the poems like
Venuti says, and the interrogative force of the writing constantly reminds us of the strange amalgamation of the Catalan poet and the American icon into a single being.” Richard Howard, judge, the National Poetry Series's Robert Fagles Translation Prize. This work, a sequence of fifty poems, each based on a painting by the American realist artist, is not arranged chronologically according to the dates when the paintings were completed; instead, the poems sketch a narrative that follows a poetic subject in transit from small-town origins to big-city life, from the search for a job to a career in art, from bachelorhood to love and companionship, from youth to age The poems do not merely rehearse the facts of the painter's life or his cantankerous opinions. The ventriloquism slips, as Mr. &ldq