Poetry and Radical Politics in Fin de Siecle France: From Anarchism to Action Francaise

ISBN-13: 9780198831167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 304 str.

Patrick McGuinness

Recenzje

He [McGuinness] shows us how poets at the time grappled with these issues. Most failed to grasp them, Mallarmé being a major exception. One of the revelations of the book is Pierre Quillard, who appears in this account to be the most lucid contemporary analyst of relations between Symbolism and politics. McGuinness emerges as a very worthy successor to Mallarmé and Quillard in his unfolding of such relations. Like them, through analyses that somehow seem to go to the heart of what poetry is, he shows us how and why poetry and politics draw on each other, but resist being mapped on to each other.

O autorze

Patrick McGuinness is the author or editor of several academic books, including Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre (OUP, 2000), Symbolism, Decadence and the fin de siècle (Exeter UP 2001), and T. E. Hulme, Selected Writings (Carcanet, 1998). He is also the author of two books of poems (The Canals of Mars, 2004, and Jilted City, 2010), a novel, The Last Hundred Days (Seren/Bloomsbury, 2011, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, winner of the Wales Book of the Year, and the Author's Guild Award for Fiction), and a memoir, Other People's Countries (Jonathan Cape, 2014, winner of the 2014 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize). The Last Hundred Days in its French translation (Grasset, 2013) won the Prix du premier roman étranger.