Magellan of the Pacific

Roditi, Édouard

McGraw-Hill Book Co.

Magellan of the Pacific (Great travellers)

FABER

The Delights of Turkey

Literature & Fiction

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The Delights of Turkey: Stories

New Directions

Edouard Roditi's critical study of Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1947 in New Directions' Makers of Modern Literature Series, was a pioneering attempt to evaluate a literary reputation long distorted by the journalistic appetite for scandal. Relegating biography to a back seat, Roditi addressed the important of Wilde's ingenious, imaginative, and dialectical thought in his own time and showed how his poetry, novels, plays, and critical writings were a key influence in the shift of English and American literature away from established and aging Romanticism toward Modernism. For this first paperbound edition of his perceptive and erudite study of Wilde, Roditi has added three additional chapters touching on new material about Wilde as well as the new public attitudes about homosexuality that have evolved since the book was first published.
An American long resident in Paris, Edouard Roditi is an internationally known linguist, scholar, art critic, and author and translator of a considerable number of works of fiction and poetry, criticism and biography. A collection of his witty and exotic short stories, The Delights of Turkey, is available under the New Directions imprint.

Oscar Wilde: Criticism (New Directions Paperbook)

Biographies & Memoirs

In this moving collection of poems and translations, all of them composed during the rise and fall of the Third Reich, Edouard Roditi gives thanks to God and to his forebears for the blessing of his Jewish-mystic heritage. As an American student in Berlin in the 1930s, Roditi witnessed at firsthand the shocking rise of German anti-Semitism. Upon resuming his education in England, he began to study of Hebrew and ancient Jewish texts as a supplement to his study of the Greek and Latin classics and, more important, as an act of cultural memory. As Charles Reznikoff had done in the 1920s, Roditi began his exploration of Jewishness by writing narrative poems based on Old Testament sources, including the Creation story and the tale of Lot's wife. He also wrote "Cassandra's Dream," a poem based on a dramatic monologue by Lycophron (3rd century B.C.), whom Roditi considers "the only Greek poet endowed with the same gift of prophecy as the Hebrew prophets." Later, after the Holocaust, he wrote tributes to the survivors and prayers for the dead, and translated lyrics by German-Jewish poets who perished in the camps. All of these poems are collected here, but the centerpiece of the volume is Roditi's best-known poem, the "Three Hebrew Elegies," a sad, stubborn, compassionate expression of righteousness and despair that at least one critic, Paul Goodman, ranked with the best of Eliot and Rilke.

Thrice Chosen

Poetry

Black Sparrow Press

Thrice chosen

The Disorderly Poet (Yes! Capra Chapbook Series Number 29)

Capra Press

The disorderly poet & other essays (Capra chapbook series ; no. 29)

Dialogues on Art [Jan 01, 1980] Roditi, Edouard

Dialogues on Art

Arts & Photography

Ross-Erikson

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