My Body and I
May 2005
Trade Paperback · 145 Pages
$14.00 U.S. · $17.00 CAN
ISBN 9780974968094
Archipelago Books
Trade Paperback · 145 Pages
$14.00 U.S. · $17.00 CAN
ISBN 9780974968094
Archipelago Books
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Description
In My Body and I (1925), René Crevel attempts to trace with words the geography of a being, exploring the tension between body and spirit. Crevel’s meditation is a vivid personal journey through illusion and disillusion, secret desire, memory, the possibility and impossibility of life, sensuality and sexuality, poetry and the wilderness of the imagination. The narrator’s Romantic mind moves from evocative tales to frank confessions, making the reader a confidant to this great soul trapped in an awkward-fitting body. Admired greatly by André Breton and Ezra Pound, Crevel might be thought of as a surrealist Proust.
Robert Bononno’s translations include Henri Raczymow’s Swan’s Way and Herve Guibert’s Ghost Image.
Robert Bononno’s translations include Henri Raczymow’s Swan’s Way and Herve Guibert’s Ghost Image.
About the Authors
René Crevel (1900–1935) was deeply involved with the Surrealist movement, admired by André Breton. Committed suicide at the age of 35. His publications include Babylon (Sun and Moon Press, 1996), Putting My Foot in It (Dalkey Archive Press, 1994), and Difficult Death (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986). Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant to translate Isabelle Eberhardt's Seven Years in the Life of a Woman. His translations include Henri Raczymow's Swan's Way and Herve Guibert's Ghost Image.