The table
By: Francis Ponge ; translated by Colombina Zamponi
Contributors: Zamponi, Colombina, translator
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9781939663245
Subjects: Table; Fiction
Work titles: Table
Description: "Written from 1967 to 1973 over a series of early mornings in seclusion in his country home, The Table offers a final chapter in Francis Ponge's interrogation of the unassuming objects in his life: in this case, the table upon which he wrote. In his effort to get at the presence lying beneath his elbow, Ponge charts out a space of silent consolation that lies beyond (and challenges) scientific objectivity and poetic transport. This is one of Ponge's most personal, overlooked, and--because it was the project he was working on when he died--his least processed works. It reveals the personal struggle Ponge engaged in throughout all of his writing, a hesitant uncertainty he usually pared away from his published texts that is at touching opposition to the manufactured, "durable mother" of the table on and of which he here writes."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Translation from the French of: Table.