Paroles: Selected Poems

by Jacques Prévert, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Translator)

Overview

In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prévert 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 Prévert 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 man would seem to have intensified, making these poems ever more touching, ever more prescient.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872860421
Publisher:	City Lights Books
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Series:	City Lights Pocket Poets Series , #9
Pages:	159
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Language:	French

About the Author

Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. His poetry is popular in French education and is films formed a part of the poetic realist movement.