The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Pièce à grand spectacle L’ami sans cœur ou théâtre Adieu Celui qui e ...

LOUIS ARAGON Big Spectacular Play The friend with no heart or theater Farewell The one who is too gay that is to say too lit up ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism L’Étreinte L’an 1905 Pablo Picasso quel âge A-t-il vingt-trois vingt ...

LOUIS ARAGON The Embrace ad 1905 Pablo Picasso how old Was he then twenty-three twenty- four it was spring Or perhaps autumn Wha ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Excepté La main montre le mur où se fait L’amour dans la pièce à côt ...

LOUIS ARAGON Except His hand indicates the wall where love Is being made in the room next door All the rest o kiss perpetual kis ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Le Pèse-nerfs (extraits) Un acteur on le voit comme à travers des cr ...

Antonin Artaud 1896–1948 marseilles, france A n actor turned poet and essayist, Artaud was identified for a short while with Sur ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Se retrouver dans un état d’extrême secousse, éclaircie d’irréalité, ...

ANTONIN ARTAUD To find oneself jolted to an extreme, lit by the unreal, with, in a corner of oneself, fragments of the real worl ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Cette ombre enfin, sur le rivage où la vie fait trêve, et le vent, e ...

GEORGES BATAILLE At last, this shadow on the bank where life lets up and the wind and the horrid trampling of the crowd as I pas ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism La Nuit est ma nudité La nuit est ma nudité les étoiles sont mes den ...

GEORGES BATAILLE Night Is My Nudity Night is my nudity the stars my teeth I hurl myself among the dead dressed in white sun Deat ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism quand je crie toi que est qui seras quand je ne serai plus X sourd m ...

GEORGES BATAILLE when I cry You who are and will be when I am no more X the deaf the giant mallet breaking my head of night. —ro ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Musique de l’indi√érence musique de l’indi√érence coeur temps air fe ...

Samuel Beckett 1906–1989 dublin, ireland B eckett was one of the greatest poets, dramatists, and novelists of the twentieth cent ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Je suis je suis ce cours de sable qui glisse entre le galet et la du ...

SAMUEL BECKETT My Way my way is in the sand flowing between the shingle and the dune the summer rain rains on my life on me my l ...