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EAN : 9782232145247
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 176
Size : 13,5 x 21 mm
Last Love Poems

Collection : Poésie Seghers
Release date : 16/09/2021
« An incandescent read, burning with love, burnt by desire, chasing the flame even beyond the grave… »
 
The book:
A modern classic of sensitive and erotic poetry, this volume regroups the love poems composed by Paul Éluard during the last decade of his life: A long Reflection on Love [Une longue réflexion amoureuse, 1945], The draining Desire of Durability [Le dur désir de durer,  1946], Time is overflowing...
The book:
A modern classic of sensitive and erotic poetry, this volume regroups the love poems composed by Paul Éluard during the last decade of his life: A long Reflection on Love [Une longue réflexion amoureuse, 1945], The draining Desire of Durability [Le dur désir de durer,  1946], Time is overflowing [Le temps déborde, 1947], A Body to remember [Corps mémorable, 1948] and The Phoenix [Le Phénix, 1951] and many more poetic gems.
In these poems, celebrations of the divine femininity and declarations of love to his partners and muses from Nusch to Jacqueline and Dominique, Éluard embraces the free verse, ridding himself of the restraints of punctuation to create a style both modern and eternal. As Jean-Pierre Siméon writes perspicaciously in his preface, “Last love poems is one of adolescence’s sacred opuses, an insolent breviary young generations will always turn to in moments of despair and loneliness in order to invigorate themselves with some of these indispensable and immortal phrases that will give them the courage to make their entrance into life…”
 
Even asleep we watch over one another
And this love heavier than a ripened fruit out of a lake
Without laughing nor crying lasting forever
A day after a day a night after us
 
Key points:
A timeless classic that is and stays highly relevant. If Éluard’s seminal poem for the French Resistance “Freedom, I write your name…” is inevitably conjured in times of threats to the French Republic, his love poems will always be the universal go-to lyrics for everyone dealing with matters of the heart. From enchanted mornings, carnal unions and dreams of a life together through cruel absences, death and separation to triumphant reunions, Éluard’s eternal poems capture love in all its many facets.
 
Last love poems is one of Segher’s all time bestselling titles with over 60,000 copies sold to this day.
 
A new edition with an introduction by Jean-Pierre Siméon and facsimiles of five autograph poems exhibited at the Picasso Museum in Paris: And our Movement, Time is overflowing, Ecstasy, The Power of Hope, Love, death and life.
 
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EAN : 9782232145247
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 176
Size : 13,5 x 21 mm
Seghers