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Hundred Movements for a Fan (Quartet Encounters)
by Paul Claudel (Translator: Andrew Harvey) (Translator: Iain Watson)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Quartet Books (1993-01-12)
ISBN: 070430175X
EAN: 9780704301757
Paperback: 171 pages
SKU: 04607
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Minor wear except large crease on back cover.
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Customer Reviews
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A fascinating experiment and interesting poetry
Rating  (4)
Date: 2002-08-03
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
This volume contains "occidental ideograms", Claudel's fusion of haiku and Western sensibilities, printed in three columns - ideogram, "title" and short poem/phrase. Claudel has utilized unusual placement of words and splitting of words in ways that emphasis particular letters/sounds. There are two poems to a page, French and English pages facing each other. The poems are not haiku nor are they Zen Buddhist. However, they are generally grounded in concrete observation with a contemplative bent. The result is much more exquisite than most Western haiku.Some focus on mental activity, for example: "The peony / and this flush/ in us/ that precedes / thought" Note that a significant portion of the poem is lost when separated from the ideogram and spacing of the original. Some focus on nature with human reminents: "In the forest / on an abandoned / grave / a white / lantern". This is an excellent cross-cultural literary work well worth the readers' time.
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