Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary—to be alive—and the absoluteness of our aspiration—finally living! But could we desire anything other than to live? InThe Philo
Rene Char (1907?88) is considered the most important French poet of his generation. A member of the surrealists in the early 1930s, he became increasingly preoccupied by the rise of Nazi Germany and l
One of the foremost poets of the French Resistance, Rene Char has been hailed by Donald Revell as “the conscience of modern French poetry.” Translated by Mark Hutchinson,The Inventors is a companion v
In The Sexual Night, renowned French writer and critic Pascal Quignard meditates on a remarkable collection of illustrations of sexual imagery. He moves from the annals of global art to ancient and mo
