- Hardcover: 112 pages
- Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (16 Dec 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0715633449
- ISBN-13: 978-0715633441
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.6 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,263,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In all of Daumal's writing, the world of concrete objects carries its full common sense of pleasure and hardship, of beauty and blight. At the same time, his philosophical turn of mind involves him in a real struggle of ideas...His is a startlingly clear voice in the din' - Roger Shattuck
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LE CONTRE-CIEL is a powerful and transcendent collection of poetry. Rene Daumal presents, in the form of easily digestible verse, a stirring and provocative meditation on life, death, and the afterlife. LE CONTRE-CIEL ('The Counter-Heaven') marked the start of one of the most daring and inventive careers in all of French literature. Written when its author was only twenty-two, it was honoured with the prestigious Prix Jacques Doucet, awarded by the reigning triumvirate of French letters, Andre Gide, Paul Valery, and Jean Giraudoux. LE CONTRE-CIEL is an exploration of, among other things, death as a beginning to life rather than end, a means of shedding superficial identity and experiencing understanding and awareness - concepts that Daumal later developed in his two great prose masterpieces, A Night of Serious Drinking and the posthumously published Mount Analogue.
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Great poet , poor editing, fair translation
16 Oct 2006
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This is one of the most original, scary and darkly illuminating books of metaphysical poems I've ever read. Even the title is simply untranslatable and strangely amusing (what is it: "Counter-Heaven", "Anti-Sky", "Under-Heaven", "Against-the-sky", or maybe "Hell-Light"?). It sounds like a name out of Milton's "Paradise Lost" and the whole book is epic and visionary for what's so real and truly a promise not to forget who we are... It really doesn't matter that Mr. Kelton W. Knight left the title in the French original. But it's so sad to see this new edition done without caring to revise and fix some simple misprints found in the first English edition of this beautiful book. Maybe the whole book should have been left as done by the poet when first published in 1935 (and winning the Jacques Doucet price with it): no mistakes and just all in French!
The book is divided in 6 sections of poems:
I. KEYS TO A GREAT POETIC GAME
II. DEATH AND HER MAN
III. THE SKY IS CONVEX
IV. BLOOD CLOTS
V. ENEMY OF THE DAY
VI. THE SILENCE OF THUNDER
The book is divided in 6 sections of poems:
I. KEYS TO A GREAT POETIC GAME
II. DEATH AND HER MAN
III. THE SKY IS CONVEX
IV. BLOOD CLOTS
V. ENEMY OF THE DAY
VI. THE SILENCE OF THUNDER
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