Steles, Vol. 1
Victor Segalen has come to be widely recognized in recent years as one of the luminaries of French modernism. Trained as a surgeon and Chinese interpreter, he wrote prolifically in a variety of genres. With this highly original collection of prose poems in French and Chinese, Segalen invented a new genre-the "stele-poem"-in imitation of the tall stone tablets with formal inscriptions that he saw in China. His wry persona declaims these inscriptions like an emperor struggling to command his...
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First English critical edition of a bilingual masterpiece with facsimile and facing-page translation
Acknowledgments ixForeword Haun Saussy xiIntroduction 1Steles 46Preface 53Contents 67The Poems 71Afterword: "Explanation of the Edition" 259Steles at a Glance 265Critical Notes 285Bibliography 401About the Authors 417
