Paul Éluard

Book 1998

Paul Éluard : Giving to See

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"Give to see" as Paul Eluard made up the collection published in 1939. There are texts already published at the time, others that were unpublished, the unity of the collection being that Eluard gathered there most of his writings devoted to poetry and painting. For a more precise study of the composition of "Donner à voir", please refer to the edition of Paul Eluard's "Complete Works" in the Library of the Pleiade, …

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Book 1929

Paul Éluard : Love, Poetry

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Here is a collection of poems of the most revealing of the talent of this committed poet. This work was produced during a singular journey in which Paul Eluard fought his demons. It is a poetic triptych in which are successively evoked the three phases of a crisis: genesis, paroxysm and resolution.

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Book 1949

Paul Éluard : A Lesson in Morality

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This new collection of twenty-seven unpublished poems, in large part, marks an important moment in the life of the author and in his work. "I wanted to be moralist," he said in his preface. How many times have I had to repeat myself, with this absurd stubbornness of the disciplined combatant: 'What is evil makes you suffer or makes others suffer, but what is good is just and harmonious and wise, in all senses; yo…

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