In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prevert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 by Les Editions de Minuit, a press with its origins in the Underground, PAROLES met with enormous success, and there were several hundred thousand copies in print by the time these first translations in English were published by City Lights in 1958.
Today Prevert speaks out in a voice still attuned to our times, for the human condition (which is always his focus) has not changed. In fact, man's inhumanity to...
In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prevert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupat...
Includes the French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the poems in their social and historical context.
Includes the French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the poems in their social and his...
