Paroles (French Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)

~ Jacques Prevert (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 252 pages
• Publisher: Schoenhofs Foreign Books (September 10, 1976)
• Language: French
• ISBN-10: 2070367622
• ISBN-13: 978-2070367627
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #455,122 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prévert is one of the truly gifted poets of this century, October 16, 1999

By A Customer

Jacques Prévert is able to communicate so much by saying so little. His poems are simple yet somehow manage to touch people on levels much deeper than one would think. To not have experienced Prévert is to have truly missed out on one of the truly gifted poets of this century.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece of simplicity, July 8, 1998

By	[e-mail] (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews

Prevert's words leave you spinning as if you know where he is, what he looks at, what he's thinking. He describes his world in such a manner...that the reader has no choice. His Blood and Feathers volume is just as good.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars French postwar poetry bilingual edition, July 26, 2000

By	M. J. Smith (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Paroles (Paperback)

Reading these poems - especially the longer poems - one can easily see why Ferlinghetti was attracted to these poems - there is a significant overlap of poetic sensibilities with those of the beatniks. The opposition of Prevert to war and religion is highly visible but generally not strident. Prevert's use of repetition, the ordinariness of his observations create a very accessible poetry.

As an example "Flowers and Wreathes" explores thought in the image of flower, the pull of beauty and pleasure over reality etc. The poem ends with the following use of repetition: "Because / In their head / Sprouts the sacred flower / The thin little filthy flower / The sick flower / The bitter flower ..."