Nabí (English and Catalan Edition) - Softcover

Josep Carner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856463302 ISBN 13: 9780856463303

Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, 2004

Synopsis

Josep Carner's Nabí is a masterpiece of modern Catalan poetry. Based on the biblical story of Jonah, it is essentially a Christian poem, though it is scathing about the effects of religious perversion. In the widest sense a poem about the limits of rationality, it is a triumph of language - of a language which Carner helped to establish as a vehicle for serious poetry. This bilingual edition is introduced by the noted Catalan expert Arthur Terry. Josep Carner (1884-1970) was one of the leading members of a brilliant generation of Catalan poets. His work extends from the early years of the century to the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. J.L. Gili (1907-1998) was born in Barcelona and lived in England from 1934. A scholar, translator, publisher and bookseller, Joan Gili ran the Dolphin Book Company in Oxford for many years, and was well known as the translator of Lorca's Selected Poems (Penguin).

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Josep Carner (1884-1970) was one of the leading members of a brilliant generation of Catalan poets. His work extends from the early years of the century to the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. J.L. Gili (1907-1998) was born in Barcelona and lived in England from 1934. 

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A prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and children's author, Hikmet (1902-63) is the twentieth-century Turkish writer best known in the West. Indeed, his Western reputation is big enough to inspire a second major English translation of his work in honor of the centenary of his birth. McKane and colleagues render many of the same poems that Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk translated for Poems of Nazim Hikmet (1994), which has just been reissued, revised and expanded, to complement their complete translation of Hikmet's verse novel, Human Landscapes from My Country. It is hard to prefer either set of translators' work; both contain smooth and rhythmic versions of Hikmet's pioneering Turkish free verse, and each includes poems and passages the other lacks. Hikmet is best and, fortunately, most generously represented by his translators when he is singing the beauties of Turkey, the Turks, his wives (he was married four times), and his friends. That he so often writes from prison and exile gives added poignance to his work. Every reader of world literature should know his work. Ray Olson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0856463302
• ISBN 13: 9780856463303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120