by Francis Ponge · Belin Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9791035817930
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«Le Parti pris des choses» is Francis Ponge's collection of prose poems, published by Belin Education in hardcover (192 pages, in French).
In these thirty-two prose poems, Francis Ponge turns his gaze towards everyday objects such as bread, the orange, the pebble or the candle to celebrate their existence and beauty. With humor and a virtuoso use of language, the author offers a lesson in humility before the world and invites readers to rediscover the poetry of the banal.
School edition from the Classico Lycée collection, with a pedagogical dossier by Olivier Rachet. Complete text. The work was originally published in 1942.
For secondary and high school students studying the work in class, as well as for those interested in French poetry.
Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge was a French poet. He developed a form of prose poem, minutely examining everyday objects. He was the third recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1974.
