Our Europe by Laurent Gaudé and translated by Alison Anderson

This is poetry from France.

Our Europe by Laurent Gaudé translated by Alison Anderson is published by Europa Editions, Incorporated. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2021.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781609455798E12.

Our Europe, by Laurent Gaudé and translated by Alison Anderson, sounds like a civic and historical book, one concerned with what a continent says about itself and what it refuses to remember. Gaudé is known across genres, and this title carries the scale of public address: Europe as inheritance, argument, catastrophe, and shared dream. Anderson’s translation brings that scope into English. I would read Our Europe not as a tidy political statement, but as a lyric reckoning with belonging at continental scale. The word “our” is doing a lot of work. Who gets included in it? Who is asked to pay for it? Who has been left outside its music? Poetry can widen history until it becomes intimate again, and that seems to be the force of this volume.

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