Environ 200 poèmes en anglais avec leur texte original en allemand. Ils sont présentés avec 34 oeuvres qui ont inspiré l'auteur. Ces poèmes sont surprenants et enchanteurs, révélant les côtés lumineux et sombres d'Alfred Brendel, l'un des plus grands musiciens du monde. ©Electre 2025
« Alfred Brendel's poems are a delight. His voice is wonderfully eccentric, droll, sly, mischievous - the same brilliant fingers making a new sound. »
Harold Pinter, Playwright
« Among his many great gifts as a pianist, Alfred Brendel has a genius for bringing out the wit in unexpected composers, not least because he himself is an anarchic spirit, a witty man with wide and idiosyncratic tastes : for Baroque architecture and nonsense verse, Dada art and the works of Edward Gorey. All this is reflected in Brendel's poems. They are trapdoors into his dream-life - funny, sly and deeply subversive, especially of his own grandeur as a musician. »
Al Alvarez, critic and poet
« Brendel is a master of the laconic tone, with striking formulation and rhythmic command. From wordplay via self-caricature to outright nonsense he controls a keyboard of humour that opens worlds. »
Andreas Breitenstein, literary editor, neue zürcher zeitung
« Alfred Brendel's poems have a great deal of wit and charm, and also a great deal of surrealistic strangeness and menace. That's what makes them so good - the mixture of opposites, sometimes on terms with one another and sometimes quarrelling. »
Andrew Motion, poet laureate 1999-2009
« Alfred Brendel, the poet, is a master of interruptions, of swerves and indirections, of jokes that land where no one is looking. A lucid hilarity - sometimes tinged with delicate melancholy - reigns throughout these poems. »
Michael Wood, critic
Paru le : 10/02/2011
Thématique : Poésie auteurs étrangers
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Alfred Brendel
Éditeur(s) :
Phaidon
Collection(s) : Non précisé.
Contributeur(s) : Traducteur : Richard Stokes
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-0-7148-5986-6
EAN13 : 9780714859866
Reliure : Relié sous jaquette
Pages : 599
Hauteur: 20.0 cm / Largeur 12.0 cm
Épaisseur: 3.6 cm
Poids: 595 g
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