Amers

Collection of poetry by Saint-John Perse
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841.92LC ClassPQ2623 .E386Preceded byVents (1946) Followed byChronique (1960) 

Amers [a.mɛʁ] is a collection of poetry by French writer Saint-John Perse, published in 1957.[1][2] Perse won the Nobel Prize in Literature three years later.[3]

The title means "sea marks" (points used to navigate at sea, both manmade and natural); it possibly puns on the French amer(s), "bitter",[4][5] perhaps meaning "briny" here,[6] and has echoes of mer, "sea".[7]

Amers was ranked #97 in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century.[8]

References

  1. ^ Little, Roger (1969). "The Image of the Threshold in the Poetry of Saint-John Perse". The Modern Language Review. 64 (4): 777–792. doi:10.2307/3723920. JSTOR 3723920.
  2. ^ PERSE (pseud.), Saint John (November 9, 1964). "Amers. Seamarks ... Bilingual edition. Translation by Wallace Fowlie. (Second edition, third printing.) Fr. & Eng". Bollingen Foundation – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960". NobelPrize.org.
  4. ^ Knodel, Arthur J. (1958). "Prolific the Image, and the Metre, Prodigal". The Hudson Review. 11 (3): 437–442. doi:10.2307/3848620. JSTOR 3848620.
  5. ^ Fowlie, Wallace (November 1, 2010). Poem and Symbol: A Brief History of French Symbolism. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0271038131 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Guicharnaud, Jacques; Beckelman, June (1958). "Vowels of the Sea: Amers, by Saint-John Perse". Yale French Studies (21): 72–82. doi:10.2307/2928996. JSTOR 2928996.
  7. ^ Little, Roger. "The Image of the Threshold in the Poetry of Saint-John Perse." The Modern Language Review 64, no. 4 (1969): 777-92. Accessed February 4, 2020. doi:10.2307/3723920.
  8. ^ "Les 100 livres du vingtième siècle d'après Le Monde - Liste de 95 livres - SensCritique". www.senscritique.com.


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