Derniers Poèmes d’Amour

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The work of a great poetess — Marina Tsvetaïeva delivers here an approach that cannot easily be assimilated to love poetry… “Since I could have stopped writing poems, I could also one day stop loving. So I will die. And it will of course be suicide, because my desire for love is entirely a desire for death,” she wrote in 1919, before choosing exile from her native Russia.

Author : Paul Eluard

Publishing House : Seghers

Release Date: Septembre 2021

“An incandescent book, burning with love, burning with desire, tracking the flame, if necessary, beyond death…” This volume, which has become an essential classic of sentimental and erotic poetry, brings together the poems by Paul Eluard dedicated to love, written during the last ten years of his life: A long reflection in love (1945), The Hard Desire to last (1946), Time overflows (1947), Memorable body (1948) and Le Phoenix (1951).