Selected Poetry and Prose of Évariste Parny: In English Translation, with French Text (MLA Texts and Translations) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603293620 ISBN 13: 9781603293624

Publisher: Modern Language Association of America, 2018

Synopsis

Praised by Voltaire and admired by Pushkin, variste Parny (17531814) was born on the island of Runion, which is east of Madagascar, and educated in France. His life as a soldier and government administrator allowed him to travel to Brazil, Africa, and India. Though from the periphery of Frances colonial empire, he ultimately became a member of the Acadmie Franaise. Despite his reaching that pinnacle of respectability, some of his poetry was banned after his death.

This edition includes poems from the Posies rotiques and lgies, which established Parnys reputation; the Chansons madcasses (Madagascar Songs), which were influential in the development of the prose poem; five of his published letters, written in a mixture of prose and verse; the narrative poem Le Voyage de Cline; and selections from his sardonic, anticlerical later poetry. A substantial introduction discusses Parnys poetry in connection with its literary context and the themes of gender, race, and postcoloniality.

About this title

About the Author

Franoise Lionnet is professor of Romance languages and literatures, comparative literature, African and African American studies, and women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University. Her recent books include The Known and the Uncertain: Creole Cosmopolitics of the Indian Ocean and Writing Women and Critical Dialogues: Subjectivity, Gender, and Irony.

Peter Low is a senior adjunct fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has translated many French poems and recently published Translating Song.

Blake Smith is a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago and the translator of K. Madavanes To Die in Benares.

Review

"The introductory material, the content of Parny's writings, and the translations and notes are accessible and readable. It was a pleasure to read this volume." Doris Kadish, University of Georgia

Edition details

• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1603293620
• ISBN 13: 9781603293624
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: French
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Lionnet Françoise