Games of mountains and waters: Quatrains and eights from China.
Michalon 2007 reissue| N° d'inventaire | 30310 |
| Format | 11 x 16 |
| Détails | 329 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2007 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782841864164 |
From landscape poetry, created by China a good fifteen centuries before ours and which until today has spread its marvelous foliage on a single nourishing trunk, only its densest forms have been retained here, the quatrain and the eight-part poem. To circumvent as much as possible the obstacles that oppose their difficult transposition, the translator has chosen to "steal" poems, as Claude Roy said, to which their simplicity, their stripping down and their transparency open up immediate access. These short pieces celebrate in their infinite variety "the mountain and the water" of the walker and the traveler, the dreamer and the painter, the hermit and the monk.
From landscape poetry, created by China a good fifteen centuries before ours and which until today has spread its marvelous foliage on a single nourishing trunk, only its densest forms have been retained here, the quatrain and the eight-part poem. To circumvent as much as possible the obstacles that oppose their difficult transposition, the translator has chosen to "steal" poems, as Claude Roy said, to which their simplicity, their stripping down and their transparency open up immediate access. These short pieces celebrate in their infinite variety "the mountain and the water" of the walker and the traveler, the dreamer and the painter, the hermit and the monk.