{"product_id":"9780857423245","title":"The Inventors: And Other Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the foremost poets of the French Resistance, René Char has been hailed by Donald Revell as “the conscience of modern French poetry.” Translated by Mark Hutchinson, \u003ci\u003eThe Inventors\u003c\/i\u003e is a companion volume to Char’s critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eHypnos\u003c\/i\u003e. It gathers more than forty poems that represent a cross-section of Char’s mature work, spanning from 1936 to 1988. All three genres of Char’s work are represented here: verse poems, prose poems, and the abrupt, lapidary propositions for which he is best known. These \u003ci\u003emaxima sententia\u003c\/i\u003e combine the terseness of La Rochefoucauld with the probing and sometimes riddling character of the fragments of Heraclitus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Inventors\u003c\/i\u003e includes a brief introduction to Char’s life and work, as well as a series of notes on the backstories of the works, which explain allusions that may not be immediately familiar to the English-speaking reader. These new translations stay true to the originals, while at the same time conveying much of the music and beauty of the French poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for René Char\u003cbr\u003e “Char, I believe, is a poet who will tower over twentieth-century French poetry.”—George Steiner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027227295984,"sku":"9780857423245","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780857423245_p0.jpg?v=1763841345","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780857423245","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}