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In Jacques Réda: Being There, Almost, Aaron Prevots studies the work of this major contemporary French writer since the 1950s—poetry, novels, literary essays, short prose, jazz histories. He particularly examines Réda’s explorations of place, including how the ‘world’s energy’ becomes the ideal dancing partner, poetry incarnate in one’s arms. Réda embodies ‘being there, almost’ because he wanders with great wisdom yet renounces any glory in this metaphorical dance. He aligns us with the outer world’s rhythms and time’s passage. Fleeting waves of perception create a voluptuous, unified whole. In considering the arc of Réda’s works from 1952-2015, Aaron Prevots locates a progression from post-Baudelairean flânerie to commemoration of childhood, classical antiquity, fellow writers, jazz, physics, swing, theology, and trains.

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Prevots offre une vision panoramique de la biographie et de l'oeuvre de Reda, temoignant ainsi d'une connaissance etendue sur le sujet. Il fait aussi bien reference a des souvenirs d'enfance de l'auteur pendant la Deuxieme Guerre mondiale qu'a ses reflexions contemporaines sur la science et le capitalisme. Il examine aussi des textes venant de toutes les epoques et de tous les genres. De plus, Prevots demontre unemaitrise approfondie des themes, du style et des reflexions de l'ecrivain dans les nombreuses lectures rapprochees qu'il entreprend. - Aurelie Van de Wiele, French Review, 91.4.

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Aaron Prevots, Ph.D. (2002), Southwestern University, is Associate Professor of French at the same university. He has published translations and many articles on French poetry, including Jacques Réda’s Return to Calm (Host, 2007) and Thirteen Songs of Dark Love (VVV, 2008).

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