The Lascaux Notebooks by Terry, Philip
The Lascaux Notebooks by Terry, Philip

The Lascaux Notebooks

This newest Carcanet Classic collects the oldest poetry yet discovered, as written down or runed in the...
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SKU: 9781800171725
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Author: Philip Terry
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Lascaux Notebooks by Terry, Philip

The Lascaux Notebooks

$448.69
The Lascaux Notebooks by Terry, Philip

The Lascaux Notebooks

$448.69
Author: Philip Terry
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
This newest Carcanet Classic collects the oldest poetry yet discovered, as written down or runed in the Ice Age in Lascaux and other caves in the Dordogne, and now translated--tentatively--into English for the first time. The translation is at two removes, from French versions by the mysterious linguistic genius Jean-Luc Champerret, and then from the striking originals that retain such a sense of early human presence. Philip Terry mediates between the French and those hitherto inscrutable originals. Jean-Luc Champerret's unique contribution to world literature is in his interpretation of the cave signs. And Philip Terry's contribution is to have discovered and rendered this seminal, hitherto unsuspected work into English. The translated poems are experiments, as the drawings may have been to the original cave poets composing them as image and sound. While archaeologists maintain that these signs are uninterpretable, Champerret assigns them meanings by analogy, then--in an inspired act of creative reading--inserts them into the frequent 3 x 3 grids to be found at Lascaux. The results--revelation of Ice-Age poetry--are startling.

Author: Philip Terry, Jean-Luc Champerret
Publisher: Carcanet Classics
Published: 06/30/2022
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
ISBN: 9781800171725
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