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Hesitant Fire Selected Prose of Max Jacob

Hesitant Fire Selected Prose of Max Jacob
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  • ISBN-13: 9780803225749
  • ISBN: 0803225741
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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Jacob, Max, Black, Moishe, Black, Moishe

SUMMARY

A serious artist and a literary clown nonpareil, Max Jacob was born in Brittany in 1876 and died in a Nazi prison camp in 1944. His influence on modern French poetry was profound, and his modernist lyrical verse is still widely read. Much of his other work is equally exciting and original, but has waited decades for capable translators. Hesitant Firemakes available for the first time in English some of his best prose. The translators, Moishe Black and Maria Green, have succeeded in catching his gift for linguistic innovation, for mimicry and buffoonery often a millimeter away from melancholy. This anthology displays Jacob's versatility, for he wrote in a dozen styles. The Story of King Kabul the First and Gawain the Kitchen-Boyis a fable populated by Balibridgians and Bouloulabassians. Excerpts from In Defense of Tartufe reveal the poet's mysticism and aestheticism. Those from The Flowering Plantoffer brilliant social analysis behind a mask of the Absurd. Flim-Flamstudies such characters as "The Lawyer Who Meant to Have Two Wives Instead of One" and "The Unmarried Teacher at the High School in Cherbourg." The Dullard Prince blends autobiography and fiction. Letters to Mrs. Goldencalf and other imaginary members of the bourgeoisie are taken from The Dark Room. Never before published, "The Maid" was inspired by a contemporary murder case. Also included here are portions of The Bouchaballe Property, Jacob's favorite of his own novels; entries from A Traveler's Notebook; personal letters; and four religious meditations. For many English-language readers, Hesitant Firewill be in introduction to a writer who was an immediate precursor of Surrealism, who was a close friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, who converted to Catholicism but retained an intensely Jewish outlook, and who produced work that is still vivid nearly a half-century after his death.Jacob, Max is the author of 'Hesitant Fire Selected Prose of Max Jacob' with ISBN 9780803225749 and ISBN 0803225741.

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