Rosanna Warren Max Jacob biografie recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de biografie van de Franse dichter. Op 20 oktober 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij W.W. Norton & Company de biografie van de Franse dichter Max Jacob, geschreven door Rosanna Warren. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.
Rosanna Warren Max Jacob biografie recensie en informatie
Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op de pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de biografie, Max Jacob, A Life in Art and Letters. Het boek is geschreven door Rosanna Warren. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de Max Jacob biografie geschreven door de Amerikaanse biografe Rosanna Warren.
Max Jacob
A Life in Art and Letters
- Schrijfster: Rosanna Warren (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: biografie
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company
- Verschijnt: 22 oktober 2020
- Omvang: 720 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Gebonden Boek
Flaptekst van de biografie van de Franse dichter Max Jacob
Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris, Jewish homosexual poet Max Jacob was Pablo Picasso’s initiator into French culture, Guillaume Apollinaire’s guide out of the haze of symbolism, and Jean Cocteau’s loyal friend. As Picasso reinvented painting, Jacob helped to reinvent poetry with compressed, hard-edged prose poems and synapse-skipping verse lyrics, the product of a complex amalgamation of Jewish, Breton, Parisian, and Roman Catholic influences.
In Max Jacob, the poet’s life plays out against the vivid backdrop of bohemian Paris from the turn of the twentieth century through the divisions of World War II. Acclaimed poet Rosanna Warren transports us to Picasso’s ramshackle studio in Montmartre, where Cubism was born; introduces the artists gathered at a seedy bar on the left bank, where Max would often hold court; and offers a front-row seat to the artistic squabbles that shaped the Modernist movement.
Jacob’s complex understanding of faith, art, and sexuality animates this sweeping work. In 1909, he saw a vision of Christ in his shabby room in Montmartre, and in 1915 he converted formally from Judaism to Catholicism–with Picasso as his godfather. In his later years, Jacob split his time between Paris and the monastery of Benoît-sur-Loire. In February 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Drancy, where he would die a few days later.
More than thirty years in the making, this landmark biography offers a compelling, tragic portrait of Jacob as a man and as an artist alongside a rich study of his groundbreaking poetry–in Warren’s own stunning translations. Max Jacob is a nuanced, deeply researched, and essential contribution to Modernist scholarship.
