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Benjamin Fondane’s Ulysses
Benjamin Fondane
Translated from French by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody
Benjamin Fondane's Ulysses, by Benjamin Fondane and translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody from French, brings Romania French-language poetry into English through Fondane's Ulysses figure, exile, and modern wandering. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for Ulysses, journey, exile, and the old epic story made restless by twentieth-century displacement, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Benjamin Fondane's Ulysses belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Romanian French-language poetry a philosophical and migratory charge.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Language
- French
- Country
- Romania
- ISBN
- 9780815635161