The Jonas Variations: A Literary Seanace - Softcover

Jonas, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770860568 ISBN 13: 9781770860568

Publisher: Cormorant Books, 2011

Synopsis

The Jonas Variations: A Literary Séance is a one-of-a-kind collection: free translations, imitations, variations, reverberations, and refutations of poems in other languages that inspired its author—poet, writer and journalist George Jonas—to words in English.

The poets span centuries; the languages include Latin, Arabic, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, and Spanish. A thumbnail portrait of each poet in the context of his times precedes Jonas’s versions and re-visionings: poets as well known as Catullus, Dante, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Heine, and Rilke rub shoulders with names much less familiar to most readers. Jonas conjures up the spirits of his poets, dialogues with them, and in doing so gives them new life. This romp through multilingual literary history is at once a very personal project and an inspiring example of oneman’s lifetime engagement with poetry.

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About the Author

George Jonas was a poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, and television producer. He contributed to many Canadian and international periodicals and newspapers and has written fifteen books, including several international bestsellers. Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team (Simon and Schuster, 1984) was adapted into the Academy Award–nominated film Munich in 2005. Jonas’s most recent book is Reflections on Islam: Ideas, Opinions, Arguments (Key Porter, 2007), a collection of essays.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cormorant Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1770860568
• ISBN 13: 9781770860568
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240