Further Details Title: The Embrace Condition: New Author: Valerio Magrelli Translator: Jamie McKendrick Contributor: Jamie McKendrick (Translated by) Format: Paperback Type: Paperback ISBN-10: 0571251765 EAN: 9780571251766 ISBN: 9780571251766 Edition: Main Publisher: Faber & Faber Genre: Poetry & Drama Release Date: 19/11/2009 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 197mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 10mm Item Weight: 153g Release Year: 2009 Description: Valerio Magrelli was born in Rome in 1957. Among many other awards for his poems, he has won the Mondello Prize (1980), the Viareggio (1987), the Montale Prize (2002) and the Feltrinelli Prize (2002) and the Cetona Prize (2007). A lecturer on French literature at the University of Cassino, he has also published critical works on Dadaism, on Paul Valéry and Joseph Joubert, as well as notable translations of Mallarmé, Valéry, Jarry, Char and Ponge. He is also the author of two plays and one collection of short prose pieces, Nel condominio della carne , a poignant, often witty meditation on his own body and the ills it is heir and host to. He is currently working on a critical study of Baudelaire. Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing. |