Name: Faust Foutu
SKU: 61993487
Price: 653.00 TWD
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Author: Robert Edward Duncan
ISBN: 9780882680194

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert Edward Duncan

Publisher

Barrytown Ltd

Language

English

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780882680194

Edition No.

0002

Faust Foutu

Robert Edward Duncan (Author) · Barrytown Ltd · Paperback

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Synopsis "Faust Foutu"

Faust Foutu (Faust Screwed) is a satire featuring a mid-20th-century Faust as a bourgeois artist "suffering" for his art. It was first performed by poets and painters in San Francisco in 1955. The book includes drawings by the poet made to accompany the printed text."In the early fifties the art of painting was at the cutting edge (Clyfford Still, Pollock, Rothko) -- it's not surprising that this "screwed" Faust is a painter or that a public reading and performance of the piece should have taken place at San Francisco's most intensely avant garde art gallery, the Six Gallery. It's no surprise either that the actors in the presentation, seated at a long table on a little dais, should be friends, actors, experimental film-makers, poets, painters, and playwrights. Poet Jack Spicer leaned towards the audience at moments with intensity and almost boyish innocence of expression and near harshness of diction. Larry Jordan, the film-maker, had been encouraged by Duncan to just sing loudly and naturally letting his untrained voice carry Faust's songs. Painter, and life-friend of Duncan's, Jess Collins, spoke his lines with immense clarity and irony. The play was being tested on the ear, there was no acting-out as Duncan did in his solo performances, this was to be heard--and, listen, it's still sounding." -Michael McClureRobert Duncan's "comic masque" Faust Foutu was first performed in 1955 and published in a small edition in 1960 with drawings by the poet, reproduced here in a trade edition.

Robert Edward Duncan

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Robert Edward Duncan fue un poeta y ensayista estadounidense nacido en Oakland, California, en 1919, y fallecido en San Francisco en 1988. Figura destacada de la escuela poética de Black Mountain y de la generación literaria de la posguerra, su obra se nutre de mitología, filosofía y una visión profundamente simbólica del lenguaje. Su formación autodidacta y su participación en movimientos contraculturales lo convirtieron en un referente del experimentalismo poético norteamericano.

Autor de títulos como The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches y Ground Work: Before the War, Duncan combinó la lírica con la reflexión sobre el arte y la identidad. Su libro A Selected Prose reúne ensayos esenciales que revelan su pensamiento sobre la escritura y la imaginación. Considerado una influencia clave para poetas contemporáneos, dejó una huella duradera en la poesía estadounidense moderna. Ejemplo de su obra: A Selected Prose.

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