Continental European category: 7816 books

Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerful lyric poetic voice; a renegade surrealist who was also a highly original existential philosopher; a self-consciously Jewish poet  of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy in 1944 just before...

The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining...

Paolo Euron has published three books of poetry: Diary in Second Person (1997), Nothing You Learn From Too Slow Defeats (2004) and The Third Book (2014), along with some poems on reviews. These book presents a choice of poems, selected and translated by the author, followed by the Italian text. These...

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although...

The Death of Galahad is one long poem. In it the Arthurian hero Galahad is a compromised contemporary of  European man who is voyaging through Hell. His heroines, his army, his critics and his antagonists also inhabit the poem, in which the sordid and the sacred meet, the anxieties and conflicts...

Five-act play. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the...

Extrait :  Venez, illusions !.... au matin de ma vie, Que j’aimais à fixer votre inconstant essor ! Le soir vient, et pourtant c’est une douce envie, C’est une vanité qui me séduit encor. Rapprochez-vous !.... c’est bien ; tout s’anime et se presse Au-dessus des...

Daniela no es una poeta o una artista, sino una madre a tiempo completo. Cuando era una niña, ya sentía el deseo de comunicar sus sentimientos con dibujos y pequeñas composiciones. Este libro nace de ella, como la persona sensible y simple que es, a pesar de no tener conocimientos técnicos en...

First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first...

Extrait : ÉLAN MYSTIQUE Alors j’avais quinze ans. Au sein des nuits sans voiles, Je m’arrêtais pour voir voyager les étoiles Et contemplais trembler, à l’horizon lointain, Des flots où leur clarté jouait jusqu’au matin. Un immense besoin de divine harmonie M’entraînait malgré...

First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist — perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment — and an emancipatory act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to the cultural narratives of contemporary...

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First published in 1990. The book surveys of the development of German theatre from a market sideshow into an important element of cultural life and political expression. It examines Schiller as ‘theatre poet’ at Mannheim, Goethe’s work as director of the court theatre at Weimar, and then traces...

Dubbed the 'European Walt Whitman' Emile Verhaeren is a proEuropean idealist, whose poetry explores his overriding notion of mankind advancing to a promised land where vital creative energies and new technology could combine to produce a more progressive human strain, a hope ignominiously swept away...