内容简介
ReneChar(1907-88)isconsideredthemostimportantFrenchpoetofhisgeneration.Amemberofthesurrealistsintheearly1930s,hebecameincreasinglypreoccupiedbytheriseofNaziGermanyandlaterplayedakeyroleintheFrenchResistance.HypnosisbothadocumentofuniqueimportanceinthehistoryoftheFrenchResistanceandaclassicofmodernEuropeanliterature.BasedonajournalCharkeptduringhistimeintheMaquis,itiscomposedofshortprosefragmentsthatrangefromabruptandsometimesenigmaticmeditationsinwhichthepoetseeksouthismetaphysicalandmoralcompassbearingsinthedarknessofoccupiedFrancetonarrativedescriptionsthatthrowintostarkreliefthedramaticandoftentragicnatureofthedecisionshehadtoconfrontastheheadofhisResistancecell.Atributetotheindividualmenandwomenwhofoughtathisside,thebookisalsoacelebrationofthepowerofarttocombatterrorandtotransformourlives.CharhadsignificantinfluenceonthegenerationofFrenchpoetswhocameofageafterWorldWarIIandwasanimportantfigureforahostofdistinguishedcontemporaries,includingAlbertCamus,JulienGracq,EdmondJabes,OctavioPaz,NicolasdeStael,HannahArendtandMartinHeidegger,aswellasforyoungerwriterslikePeterHandkeandHans-MagnusEnzenberger,andthecomposerPierreBoulez,whohassetseveralofhispoemstomusic.,