Author: Florentino García Martínez File Type: pdf Offering the first comprehensive English translation of the non-biblical Qumran scrolls, The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated presents the largest collection of Qumran texts ever published in this language. Two-hundred of the total 625 manuscripts discovered can be found in this volume. (Those manuscripts omitted are either in such a fragmentary condition that translation would be meaningless, or are sufficiently modest in size that translation of them would add very little.) Thanks to the official publication, in 1993, of all the photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls (The Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche by Brill, Leiden and the Israel Antiquity Authority), it is now possible for the public to enjoy the same material available to the specialists. The 200 Dead Sea Scrolls translated here are a marked increase on the 62 previously published in the third edition of Geza Vermezs The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, This increase is mainly possible due to the introduction of the fascinating new texts, some of which, for example 4QMMT, are still awaiting official publication. The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated comprises an extensive preface outlining the origin of the manuscripts and the aims of the translation. This is followed by an introduction offering a survey of the discoveries and their publication, a brief sketch of the characteristics of the Qumran library, and several interesting remarks on the sects identity, origins and history. The translation of the manuscripts is organized into nine chapters, each with one or two pages of introduction. It concludes with an exhaustive list of all manuscripts discovered at Qumran. This list has a double function. Firstly, it provides the readerwith accurate information of all the existing texts, biblical and non-biblical, published an not yet published. Secondly, it offers basic bibliographical references for the textual editions already available and for the publications which provide information on the texts not yet published. This list is a very useful reference tool and forms a scientific publication in its own right. Originally published in Spanish (1992) the present authorized translation has been prepared by Wilfred G.E. Watson of the University of Newcastle, a renowned scholar of Biblical Hebrew poetry. Please note that this title is available to customers in North America exclusively through Eerdmans Publishing Company (www.eerdmans.com).

Author: Jean-Paul Clebert File Type: epub An NYRB Classic Original Jean-Paul Clebert was a boy from a respectable middle-class family who ran away from school, joined the French Resistance, and never looked back. Making his way to Paris at the end of World War II, Clebert took to living on the streets, and in Paris Vagabond, a so-called aleatory novel assembled out of sketches he jotted down at the time, he tells what it was like. His gallery of faces and cityscapes on the road to extinction is an astonishing depiction of a world aparta Paris, long since vanished, of the poor, the criminal, and the outcastand a no less astonishing feat of literary improvisation Its long looping breathless sentences, streetwise, profane, lyrical, incantatory, are an adventure in their own right. Praised on publication by the great novelist and poet Blaise Cendrars and embraced by the young Situationists as a kind of manual for living off the grid, Paris Vagabondhere published with the starkly striking photographs of Cleberts friend Patrice Molinardis a raw and celebratory evocation of the life of a city and the underside of life.**ReviewA rollicking, poetically charged tale of privation and adventure, a first cousin of Kerouacs On the Road for all that it takes place within the confines of one city. Clebert finds all the hidden worldsthe shacks and Gypsy wagons on the periphery, the ostensibly vacant lots . . . the mushroom farms and serpentariums concealed inside apartments. . . . Luc Sante A remarkably vivid, detailed book that seems to have been composed with no method, its narrative marked by a chaotic and cheerfully self-acknowledged spontaneity Clebert is a master of the long, cascading list-sentence, trippingly rendered into English by Donald Nicholson-Smith. His descriptions are mirrored by (not illustrated by) the bleak photographs of Patrice Molinard A connoisseur of chaos, Clebert is the poet of the lumpen-proletariat and of a forgotten city. Edmund White,The New York Times Book Review This is not supposed to be a Baedeker or some tourist guide Clebert offers a hellish itinerary of the less fortunate quarters of Paris. First published in 1952, ClebertsParis insolitehas been classified as a novel, though it is as journalistic as George OrwellsDown and Out in Paris and London if it has novelistic kinship, it might be to Jean GenetsThiefs Journal..The photographs, by Molinard, are in the stark documentary style of a Weegee or Robert Frank. Altogether, they add to the impression that this is less a novel than a book of reportage. But no matter how its classified, its a sobering, eyes-wide-open view of the Paris no guidebook would care to portray. *Kirkus Reviews Cleberts vivid, incantatory descriptions of Pariss streets and back alleys, its abandoned attics and houses of ill-repute, its losers, liars, poor, criminals, and outcastsEnglish-language readers have had to wait until now to read Cleberts magnificent ode to the underbelly of Paris, rendered beautifully from the French by translator Donald Nicholson-SmithCleberts is a style of radical openness, and his sentences reproduce the possibilities of wandering, of getting lost. Hal Hlavinka, The Quarterly Conversation Paris Vagabond is a pleasure to tag along with, from sentence to sentence, section to section, arrondissement to arrondissement. Its catalogs of wondersare as strange to my eyes as the catalogs of Herodotus or Italo Calvino...Paris Vagabond should be required reading for all Francophiles of the Eiffel Tower, Paris to the Moon variety...In brief, Nicholson-Smith has done a seamless job of reassembling Paris Insolite in English...Its hard to think of another book about Paris that is so entertaining, so brutal, or so genuine. Alex Andriesse, Reading in Translation Poetry in the rough...Cleberts acute insiders view of the erstwhile clandestine Zone of Paris and other rundown quarters in 1944-1948, and the striking photographs by Patrice Molinard (1922-2002) that accompany the text, make an extraordinary book that should be in the hands of every lover of the French capital...a French classic long overdue in English, which has been given a vivid rendering by Donald Nicholson-Smith. John Taylor,The Arts Fuse* Readers who come to the printed page in search of lifeatrocious, beautiful, sordid, picturesque, funny and tragic life, of the warming sun and freezing rains, with behind it all a muscular and heartfelt sensualitythese readers will not be disappointed. Henry Muller, Carrefour The most startling, the most lively, the most Mysteries of Paris work to appear since the peregrinations of Gerard de Nerval.Rene Fallet, Le Canard Enchaine Praise for *The Blockhouse Cleberts prose...hits an unfailing stride in the febrile Poe-esque evocation of the horror climax...Clebert displays a very impressive and extremely painful talent for the inferno of [his characters] minds.Frederic Morton, The New York Times*About the AuthorJean-Paul Clebert (19262011) ran away from his Jesuit boarding school at the age of seventeen to join the French Resistance, serving undercover in a Montmartre brothel to gather intelligence on the patrons who were German soldiers. After the liberation of Paris he wandered through a catalog of odd jobs including boat painter, cook, newspaper seller, funeral directors mute, and cafe proprietor. For many months he lived with the citys down-and-outs, though without losing touch with some of Pariss literary figures, notably Blaise Cendrars, and gathered the raw material for this book, first published in 1952 as Paris insolite. In 1956 he moved to Provence, where he remained for the rest of his life, writing many books, including a classic firsthand study of Gypsy life, originally published in 1961 and translated by Charles Duff as The Gypsies and the encyclopedic Dictionnaire du Surrealisme (1996). Patrice Molinard (19222002) began his career taking stills for Georges Franjus legendary documentary on the Paris slaughterhouse at La Villette, Le sang des betes (1949). As a film director, he is best known for Fantasmagorie (1963), Orphee 70 (1968), and Bistrots de Paris (1977). Donald Nicholson-Smith was born in Manchester, England and is a longtime resident of New York City. He came across Cleberts Paris insolite as a teenager and has long wished to bring it to an Anglophone audience. Among his many translations are works by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Henri Lefebvre, Raoul Vaneigem, Antonin Artaud, Jean Laplanche, Guillaume Apollinaire, Guy Debord, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Thierry Jonquet, and (with Alyson Waters) Yasmina Khadra. For NYRB Classics he has translated Manchettes Fatale and The Mad and the Bad, which won the 28th Annual Translation Prize of the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation for fiction. Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography, and, most recently The Other Paris. He translated Felix Feneons Novels in Three Lines and has written introductions to several other NYRB Classics, including Classic Crimes by William Roughead and Pedigree by Georges Simenon. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, he teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.