Pere Gimferrer - (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Pere Gimferrer's writing spans more than fifty years in four languages, and is an attempt to restore and expand upon avant-garde tendencies in poetry that were largely abandoned in Spain after the Spanish Civil War. Of his second book, The Sea Aflame, Octavio Paz wrote: "Our language will be, already is, larger by one poet." In 1970, with Mirrors, Gimferrer began writing in Catalan, his mother tongue. Since then, he has won major prizes in Catalan and Spanish, with a body of work that includes writings on film and art history as well as translations of Beckett, Stendhal, and Mercáe Rodoreda. The present volume, the first to draw on all phases of Gimferrer's career-from Message from the Tetrarch, published when he was eighteen, to selections from his recent verses in Italian-is an ideal introduction to a man who, in the words of Roberto Bolaäno, "is a great poet and also knows everything.""--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A bilingual edition of poems by the award-winning Spanish poet.</b> <p/>Pere Gimferrer has been writing poetry for more than fifty years in several languages, restoring and expanding upon avant-garde tendencies in poetry that had been abandoned in Spain after the Spanish Civil War. Of his second book, <i>The Sea Aflame</i>, Octavio Paz wrote: "Our language will be, already is, larger by one poet." In 1970, with <i>Mirrors</i>, Gimferrer turned to Catalan, his mother tongue. Since then, he has won major Catalan and Spanish prizes for his work, which, along with poetry, includes writings on film and art history, translations, and novels. This bilingual volume, the first to draw on all phases of Gimferrer's career as a poet--from <i>Message from the Tetrarch</i>, published when he was eighteen, to selections from his recent verses in Italian--is an ideal introduction to a writer who, in the words of Roberto Bolaño, "is a great poet and also knows everything."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Pere Gimferrer] is a great poet and also knows everything." --Roberto Bolaño <p/>"Gimferrer lives in and for poetry . . . His virtuosity shows he is capable of self-renewal and change without repudiating himself. Few authors are capable of such breadth and depth." --Juan Goytisolo <p/>"One of our writers with the greatest firsthand acquaintance with the great European cultural tradition, he is also one of those who has taken farthest the salutary and audacious irreverence of pop." --Antonio Muñoz Molina<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Pere Gimferrer</b> is the author of more than thirty books in Catalan, Spanish, and Italian. A member of the Real Academia Española and the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, he has won numerous accolades for his work, including Spain's National Poetry Prize and the Ramon Llull Novel Award. <p/><b>Adrian Nathan West</b> is a writer and literary translator living in Spain. He has translated books from German, Catalan, and Spanish, including Jean Améry's <i>Charles Bovary, Country Doctor</i>, which is published by NYRB Classics. His novel <i>My Father's Diet</i> will be published in 2021.
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