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Nabi

  • ISBN-13: 9780856463303
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: ANVIL PRESS POETRY
  • By Josep Carner, Translated by J.L. Gili
  • Price: AUD $22.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 30/07/2001
  • Format: Paperback (217.00mm X 139.00mm) 120 pages Weight: 163g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Josep Carner's "Nabi" is a masterpiece of modern Catalan poetry. Based on the biblical story of Jonah, it is essentially a Christian poem, though it is scathing about the effects of religious perversion. In the widest sense a poem about the limits of rationality, it is a triumph of language - of a language which Carner helped to establish as a vehicle for serious poetry. This bilingual edition is introduced by the noted Catalan expert Arthur Terry.
Josep Carner (1884-1970) was one of the leading members of a brilliant generation of Catalan poets. His work extends from the early years of the century to the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.J.L. Gili (1907-1998) was born in Barcelona and lived in England from 1934. A scholar, translator, publisher and bookseller, Joan Gili ran the Dolphin Book Company in Oxford for many years, and was well known as the translator of Lorca's 'Selected Poems' (Penguin).
'Joan Gili's translation is itself a minor masterpiece... he has created a major poem in English for which there is no exact parallel in our language' - Arthur Terry
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