What's the Title? Title - Serge Gavronsky

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Résumé :
The title is TITLE. What's the title? TITLE. That means the book is the book, or A book, and implies that the book questions itself along the way, or perhaps just makes a lot of leaps, flops, and fadeaway hook shots, though all is not in cinders. But life and words manage to burn, and if you burn too, it might be for thirst of knowledge, and you will at least have a chance to quench such thirst if you read this book, if you attempt to understand the nature of a title. You are Odysseus, and you're trying to get home, or toward another goal, and you need a few challenges along the way...

Biographie:
Serge Gavronsky was born in Paris in 1932 and fled Hitler in 1941. He received his BA, MA, and Ph.D in European History from Columbia University and is now professor and chair of the French department at Barnard College. His poetry, in French, has appeared in the magazines Les temps modernes, Tel quel, Action poetique, Banana Split, and many others. His first book of poetry in English was Sixty-six for starters (Jensen). He has completed several full length translations and is currently working on his fifth novel Charbovary....

Sommaire:
Serge Gavronsky, Professor of French, has taught at Barnard College since 1960. He was Chair of the department for 26 years. He inaugurated a major in Literature and Translation as well as new courses on n? gritude, historiography, a twosemester course on Culture and Institutions of France and France on Film. Serge Gavronsky has written critical works in French and English, has written poetry in both languages, translated from French to English and English into French. His novels, written in English, have been translated into Italian....