European Hours (eBook)

Anthony Rudolf (Autor)

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2017
184 Seiten
Carcanet (Verlag)
978-1-78410-209-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Every poem like a new geometry - of surprises. A strange voice of cat's cradles in a Kafkaesque half-light- very strange and unpredictable.' TED HUGHES. For more than five decades Anthony Rudolf has been active as translator, critic, editor, and publisher: all in all, an enabler of writers and readers. His own poems come to him gradually, under pressure of real themes and subjects, refined by the disciplines of translation and co-translation. European Hours represents a life's work severely curated. The poems, prose texts and prose poems which make the cut, from 1964 to 2016, are diverse in form, and run parallel to his highly praised volumes of memoirs. George Mackay Brown, reviewing Rudolf in the Scotsman, noted his 'fine exact craftsmanship: no word or syllable wasted, so that each image is stark and true'. Robin Skelton in the Malahat Review spoke of his work as 'witty, precise, beautifully cadenced, and courageously exploratory'. Reflecting on his own influences, Rudolf mentions James Wright, Robert Creeley and Ian Hamilton early on; and later, Central and East European poets including Paul Celan, Miroslav Holub and Vasko Popa, as well as the American Objectivists.

Autor

Anthony Rudolf was born in 1942 in London, where he still lives. He has two children and three grandchildren. He studied modern languages and social anthropology at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a major translator of literary works from French, Russian and other languages: these include books by Yves Bonnefoy, Claude Vigée, Edmond Jabès and Evgeny Vinokurov. He is also the author of a trilogy of memoirs: Silent Conversations: a Reader's Life, A Vanished Hand and The Arithmetic of Memory. His critical work includes the first extended study in English of Primo Levi and a wide range of essays on international modernist writers - among them F.T. Prince, Piotr Rawicz and George Oppen - and artists such as Kitaj and Hammershøi. He was the founder and publisher of Menard Press. A former Visiting Lecturer in Arts and Humanities at London Metropolitan University, he is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the English Association, and Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1998, under the narrative influence of Paula Rego, he turned to fiction, completing a book of prose fables.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 1-78410-209-1 / 1784102091
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78410-209-8 / 9781784102098