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The Table

The Table

Ponge, Francis

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Literary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1939663245
ISBN13: 9781939663245
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: May 23 2017
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.40 Depth: 6.90
Language: English

The final chapter in Francis Ponge's interrogation of unassuming objects

Written from 1967 to 1973 over a series of early mornings in seclusion in his country home, The Table offers a final chapter in Francis Ponge's interrogation of the unassuming objects in his life: in this case, the table upon which he wrote. In his effort to get at the presence lying beneath his elbow, Ponge charts out a space of silent consolation that lies beyond (and challenges) scientific objectivity and poetic transport. This is one of Ponge's most personal, overlooked, and--because it was the project he was working on when he died--his least processed works. It reveals the personal struggle Ponge engaged in throughout all of his writing, a hesitant uncertainty he usually pared away from his published texts that is at touching opposition to the manufactured, durable mother of the table on and of which he here writes.

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