Return to Calm

by Reda, Jacques

• ISBN13: 9780924047466
• ISBN10: 0924047461
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Host Pubns

Summary

Return to Calm, published in French in 1989 and appearing here as a full bilingual edition, immerses the reader in Jacques R?da's lyrical observations of the everyday. Its seven distinct sections offer reflections on youth, on travel in open country, on seasons, on Paris and on remembrance itself. They provide a rhythmic initiation into the outer world's beauty, through the eyes of a writer deeply attuned to the passing of time and space.

Table of Contents

From Jacques Reda
The Black Billiard Table	p. 5
The Return from the Dance Hall	p. 7
The Encounter	p. 9
The First Signs	p. 11
The Red House
The Visit	p. 13
Dark May	p. 17
The Starred Suspenders	p. 19
The Active Life	p. 23
Family Lile	p. 25
The Dead House	p. 27
Moving Out	p. 31
Empty-Handed	p. 35
Return to Calm	p. 39
To Short-Lived Loves
The Hidden Face	p. 43
Correspondence	p. 45
The Kiss	p. 47
The Footpath	p. 49
The Fugitive	p. 53
Tristan	p. 55
Eyes	p. 57
The Cup	p. 59
The Invisible	p. 61
Crossing Bologna	p. 65
At Tale's End	p. 67
New Railway Impressions
The Railcar	p. 71
Embankments	p. 73
Swiss Federal Rail	p. 75
Hazy Roaming Car	p. 77
The Saincaze Tunnel	p. 79
Jumping Sun	p. 81
Sorting Zones	p. 83
By Leroy's Place	p. 85
Crossing the Morvan	p. 87
Bad Light	p. 89
Direct Line	p. 91
Lost Paths	p. 93
Night Train	p. 95
Big Train of Wind	p. 99
The Open Air
Four Seascapes	p. 103
Images from a Plateau
January	p. 107
February	p. 107
March	p. 109
April	p. 109
May	p. 111
June	p. 111
July Light	p. 113
August	p. 113
September	p. 115
October	p. 115
November	p. 117
December	p. 117
Two Parisian Seasons
The Winter of Streets
Pont des Arts	p. 121
At the Massena Cannon	p. 123
The Sewing Notions Dealer	p. 125
Snow	p. 127
The Thaw	p. 129
Place Vendome	p. 131
The Sea	p. 133
The Bakery	p. 135
It's Spring (I-XII)	p. 137
Evening Schools
Late in April	p. 151
Retirement Home	p. 153
Love	p. 155
Near l'Etoile	p. 157
The Winter Evening	p. 159
Cedar at Meudon	p. 163
Houses at Malakoff	p. 165
The Price of Time at the Ile Saint-Germain	p. 167
The Light at Chatillon	p. 169
God at Bercy	p. 171
The Bicycle	p. 173
Theseus at Vaugirard	p. 175
Passing By	p. 177
The Hope of Streets	p. 179
The Lord's Day	p. 181
Sewing	p. 183
The Rainbow	p. 185
A Paradise of Birds
The Jay	p. 189
The Magpie	p. 193
A Paradise of Birds	p. 195
A Solitary Retreat	p. 199
The Dawn	p. 201
The Second Room	p. 203
Poetry	p. 205
The Hammers	p. 207
The Summer Lightning	p. 209
The Storm	p. 211
Mute Season	p. 213
The White House	p. 217
Morning	p. 219
The Thrush	p. 221
An Interlude at Saint-Joseph	p. 223
The Roofers	p. 225
Another Evening	p. 227
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