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The Lascaux notebooks
- Title
- The Lascaux notebooks / Jean-Luc Champerret ; edited and translated by Philip Terry.
- Author
- Champerret, Jean-Luc
- Publication
- Manchester : Carcanet Classics, 2022.
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 23-705 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Terry, Philip, 1962-
- Description
- 403 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This newest Carcanet Classic collects the oldest poetry yet discovered, as written down or runed in the Ice Age in Lascaux and other caves in the Dordogne, and now translated - tentatively - into English for the first time. The translation is at two removes, from French versions by the mysterious linguistic genius Jean-Luc Champerret, and then from the striking originals that retain such a sense of early human presence. Philip Terry mediates between the French and those hitherto inscrutable originals. Jean-Luc Champerret's unique contribution to world literature is in his interpretation of the cave signs. And Philip Terry's contribution is to have discovered and rendered this seminal, hitherto unsuspected work into English. The translated poems are experiments, as the drawings may have been to the original cave poets composing them as image and sound. While archaeologists maintain that these signs are uninterpretable, Champerret assigns them meanings by analogy, then - in an inspired act of creative reading - inserts them into the frequent 3 x 3 grids to be found at Lascaux. The results - revelation of Ice-Age poetry - are startling."--Page 4 of cover.
- Uniform Title
- Poetry. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Poetry.
- Subject
- Champerret, Jean-Luc > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. > Translations into English
- French poetry > Translations into English
- Painting, Prehistoric > Poetry
- Cave paintings > Poetry
- Art, Prehistoric > Europe > Poetry
- Art, Prehistoric
- Cave paintings
- French poetry
- Painting, Prehistoric
- Lascaux Cave (France) > Poetry
- Europe
- France
- France > Lascaux Cave
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Translations.
- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-705
- ISBN
- 9781800171725
- 1800171722
- 9781800171732 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1308615155
- Author
- Champerret, Jean-Luc, author.
- Title
- The Lascaux notebooks / Jean-Luc Champerret ; edited and translated by Philip Terry.
- Publisher
- Manchester : Carcanet Classics, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Added Author
- Terry, Philip, 1962- editor, translator.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781800171732
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-705