Best of
European-Literature

1968

Complete Poems


Blaise Cendrars - 1968
    The full range of his poetry—from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor—offers a challenge no translator has accepted until now.Here, for the first time in English translation, is the complete poetry of a legendary twentieth-century French writer. Cendrars, born Frederick Louis Sauser in 1887, invented his life as well as his art. His adventures took him to Russia during the revolution of 1905 (where he traveled on the Trans-Siberian Railway), to New York in 1911, to the trenches of World War I (where he lost his right arm), to Brazil in the 1920s, to Hollywood in the 1930s, and back and forth across Europe.With Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob he was a pioneer of modernist literature, working alongside artist friends such as Chagall, Delaunay, Modigliani, and Léger, composers Eric Satie and Darius Milhaud, and filmmaker Abel Gance. The range of Cendrars's poetry—from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor—offers a challenge no translator has accepted until now.

Evergreen Review Reader: 1957-1966: A Ten Year Anthology


Barney Rosset - 1968
    It also happens to bring together some of the world's best writers in one volume, in the company of their peers. 'Evergreen' was more than another literary magazine. It was the voice of a movement that helped to change the attitudes and prejudices of the cuture at large throuhg the language of art -- and succeeded. It was always damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead.

Do you exist Mr Jones? (Thirty-Minute Theatre)


Stanisław Lem - 1968
    This play is from the (Thirty-minute Theatre:Roly Poly) directed by Michael Hart (Great Britain) in (1969), scenario of one part was based on the story "Do you exist Mr Jones?" written by Stanisław Lem .

Notebooks for the Idiot


Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1968