Format: Paperback
Pages: 456
ISBN: 9780819568328
Pub Date: 04 Jun 2007
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Illustrations: 71 illus.
Description:
Victor Segalen has come to be widely recognized in recent years as one of the luminaries of French modernism. Trained as a surgeon and Chinese interpreter, he wrote prolifically in a variety of genres. With this highly original collection of prose poems in French and Chinese, Segalen invented a new genre-the "stèle-poem"-in imitation of the tall stone tablets with formal inscriptions that he saw in China.