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Disillusioned and reeling from the discovery, the young man spends an entire night listening to his master’s bitter denunciation of the ideals they once shared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1960 during Jaccottet’s period of poetic paralysis, the novel seeks to harmonize the best and worst of human nature—reconciling despair, falsehood, and lethargy of spirit with the need to remain open to beauty, truth, and the essential goodness of humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Tess Lewis, \u003cem\u003eObscurity\u003c\/em\u003e is Jaccottet’s only work of fiction, one that will introduce new readers to the multifaceted skills of this major poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853281087724,"sku":"9781803090559","price":19.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27005683482829.jpg?v=1759194919"},{"product_id":"patches-of-sunlight-or-of-shadow-by-philippe-jaccottet-9780857427915","title":"Patches of Sunlight, Or of Shadow","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhilippe Jaccottet’s newest work follows in some ways the approach of \u003ci\u003eSeedtime\u003c\/i\u003e, his recent two-volume collection of notebooks. Similarly comprising on-the-spot jottings, philosophical reflections, literary commentary, dream narratives and sundry “notes,” this book nonetheless differs from the preceding volumes in that the Swiss poet includes more personal material than ever before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on unpublished notebooks from the years 1952–2005, Jaccottet offers here passages about his family, the death of his father-in-law and of his mother, his encounters with other major poets—such as René Char, Francis Ponge, Jean Tardieu, and his friends Yves Bonnefoy and André du Bouchet—and his trips abroad. Characteristically, it also includes his walks in the countryside around the village of Grignan, in the south of France, where he has lived since 1953.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor a poet who has been notoriously discreet about his life, \u003cem\u003ePatches of Sunlight, Or of Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e offers unexpected glimpses of the private man. Above all, the entries in this notebook show how one of the greatest European poets grapples with the discouraging elements of existence, counterbalancing them by recording fleeting perceptions in which “something else,” almost like a threshold, seems present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431899873516,"sku":"9780857427915","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780857427915.jpg?v=1774557114"},{"product_id":"seedtime-by-philippe-jaccottet-9781803093598","title":"Seedtime","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeedtime\u003c\/em\u003e—Jaccottet's notebooks—is an especially good introduction to this leading francophone Swiss author, containing the poet's observations of the natural world and his reflections on literature, art, music, and the human condition. In these explorations, he returns again and again to the fundamental, focusing his prodigious talents on describing the exact shade of light on a meadow, the sound of running water, the color of cherry and almond blossoms, or the cry of a bird in the stillness before dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this translation by Tess Lewis, English readers will finally be able to join this poet as we follow in his footsteps of fifty years ago and find the still-viable seeds of his delicate and tenacious verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455684755692,"sku":"9781803093598","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81FhDGWp0wL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774793922"},{"product_id":"the-pilgrims-bowl-giorgio-morandi-by-philippe-jaccottet-9781803090542","title":"The Pilgrim`s Bowl – (Giorgio Morandi)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA meditation on the work of Italian artist Giorgio Morandi and its power to evoke a complexity of emotions and astonishment.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Pilgrim’s Bowl\u003c\/em\u003e, Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet examines Giorgio Morandi’s ascetic still lifes, contrasting his artistic approach to the life philosophies of two authors whom he cherished, Pascal and Leopardi, and reflecting on the few known autobiographical details we know about Morandi. In this small and erudite tome, Jaccottet draws us into the very heart of the artist’s calm and strangely haunting oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his literary criticism, Jaccottet is known for deeply engaging with the work of his fellow poets and tenaciously seeking the essence of their poetics. 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