Paroles

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Gallimard, 1949 - 293 pages
In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prevert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 by Les Editions de Minuit, a press with its origins in the Underground, Paroles met with enormous success, and there were several hundred thousand copies in print by the time these first translations in English were published by City Lights in 1958. Today Prevert speaks out in a voice still attuned to our times, for the human condition (which is always his focus) has not changed. In fact, man's inhumanity to man would seem to have intensified, making these poems ever more touching, ever more prescient.

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HISTOIRE DU CHEVAL
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LA PÊCHE A LA BALEINE
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JEN AI VU PLUSIEURS
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Jacques Prévert, born February 4, 1900, was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain very popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. Some of the movies he wrote are extremely well regarded, with Les Enfants du Paradis considered one of the greatest films of all time. He grew up in Paris and quit school at a young age. He was called to military service in 1918. His poems are often about life in Paris and life after the Second World War. He died in Omonville-la-Petite, on 11 April 1977.

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