Return to Calm

Reda, Jacques

ISBN 10: 0924047461 / ISBN 13: 9780924047466

Published by Host Publications, Austin, 2007

About this Item

8vo, 227 pp., Translated & with an introduction by Aaron Prevots, Bilingual edition with facing French & English trexts.

Seller Inventory # 048446

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Return to Calm
• Publisher: Host Publications, Austin
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0924047461
• ISBN 13: 9780924047466
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Fiction. Translated from the French by Aaron Prevots. RETURN TO CALM, published in French in 1989 and appearing here as a full bilingual edition, immerses the reader in Jacques Reda's lyrical observations of the everyday. Its seven distinct sections offer reflections on youth, on travel in open country, on seasons, on Paris and on remembrance itself. They provide a rhythmic initiation into the outer world's beauty, through the eyes of a writer deeply attuned to the passing of time and space.

About the Author

Jacques Reda (b. 1929) is the author of more than forty books, including works of poetry, autobiographical prose, short novels, and essays on topics ranging from jazz to city life to literature. A cultural icon and eminent literary figure in mainland Europe, he is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Prix Valery Larbaud (1983), the Grand Prix de l'Academie Francaise (1993) and the Prix Louis Mandin (2005), all three awarded in recognition of his lifetime's achievements. Reda's books available from SPD include EUROPES (Host Publications, 2009) and RETURN TO CALM (Host Publications, 2007).