Pierre Jean Jouve, Author, Lydia Davis, Translator Marlboro Press $28 (124p) ISBN 978-0-8101-6018-7
Jouve (1887-1976), a leading poet of the French Resistance, was also a novelist and essayist whose fiction is no longer read by the general public in France. Yet, as this dazzling novel, originally published in 1927, reveals, he was a daring...
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Pierre Jean Jouve, Author, Lydia Davis, Translator Marlboro Press $30 (175p) ISBN 978-0-8101-6040-8
In Part II of the Adventures, the middle-aged Catherine is short of cash, still longing for Pierre and so dangerously depressed she resorts to psychoanalysis. As she explores her ambivalence about being a woman, her fantasies of degradation and her...
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Pierre Jean Jouve, Author, Lydia Davis, Translator Marlboro Press $30 (145p) ISBN 978-0-8101-6038-5
Although the melodrama and religious symbolism characteristic of the French surrealists intrude gratuitously in the first of two volumes that chronicle the life of a fictional heroine, avant-garde Catholic poet Jouve (1887-1976) uses haunting...
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Pierre J. Jouve, Author, Pierre Jean Jouve, Author, Lydia Davis, Translator Marlboro Press $29.95 (104p) ISBN 978-0-910395-92-2
Helene is a succinct and poetic exposition of the themes that fascinated French poet and novelist Jouve following his annus mirabilis 1924-25. In that year he embraced Catholicism and married Blanche Reverchon, a practicing psychiatrist nine years...
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