num_pages: 73
description: Translated from the Night is Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo's swansong masterpiece. Rabearivelo (1901-1937), of Madagascar, is considered Africa's first modern poet. Hailed as "a pure African surrealist", Rabearivelo remains one of the most enigmatic and influential poets of the twentieth century. Here is the first complete English translation of this work, in an inspired translation by the poet Robert Ziller. "These translations read beautifully." - Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Distinguished Professor at Harvard University, and American Book Award winner.
language: French
title: Translations from the Night: Selected Poems of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (African Writers Series ; 167)
publisher: Heinemann