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Coles A Flea the Size of Paris: The Old French "Fatrasies" and "Fatras" at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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Blending levity and malaise, carnival and apocalypse, sudden death and swarming vitality, the fatrasies and fatras are a small group of “impossible” poems, written between 1250 and 1330 in Northern France. In the 1920s, these poems caught the interest of André Breton and the other Paris-based Surrealists, who published George Bataille’s translations of some of the fatrasies in La Révolution surréaliste no.6. More than any other works of their time, the fatrasies and fatras created a new poetic language, one that captures, as Bettina Full writes, “the fullness, fleeting and mortal, of all human life.” Often compared with avant-garde poetry of the twentieth century, these small marvels from the medieval world have never before been translated into English
Blending levity and malaise, carnival and apocalypse, sudden death and swarming vitality, the fatrasies and fatras are a small group of “impossible” poems, written between 1250 and 1330 in Northern France. In the 1920s, these poems caught the interest of André Breton and the other Paris-based Surrealists, who published George Bataille’s translations of some of the fatrasies in La Révolution surréaliste no.6. More than any other works of their time, the fatrasies and fatras created a new poetic language, one that captures, as Bettina Full writes, “the fullness, fleeting and mortal, of all human life.” Often compared with avant-garde poetry of the twentieth century, these small marvels from the medieval world have never before been translated into English
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