The Table

by Francis Ponge

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939663245
• ISBN13: 9781939663245
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Wakefield Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 6.9"