Eighth Day by Christian Bobin and translated by Pauline Matarasso

This is poetry from France.

Eighth Day by Christian Bobin translated by Pauline Matarasso is published by Darton, Longman & Todd, Limited. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780232531718E12.

Eighth Day, by Christian Bobin and translated by Pauline Matarasso, carries a title that points beyond the completed creation story into an extra day of attention, grace, or afterlife. Bobin’s French writing is often meditative, spiritual, and aphoristic, drawn toward simplicity without being merely simple. The eighth day might be the day of poetry: not the official architecture of the world, but the surplus tenderness that appears after the world is made. Matarasso’s translation gives English readers access to a prose-lyric mode of quiet intensity. I would read this book slowly, perhaps in fragments, letting its spiritual plainness do its work without demanding that it become doctrine.

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