by Francis Ponge · Días Contados · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493702137
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«El sabó» is a poetic prose work by Francis Ponge, published by Días Contados in paperback (128 pages, in Catalan).
Ponge proposes a linguistic and sensory game around soap: words are not fixed objects but actions in process, manipulated and tested. The work allows babbling and hesitation, and compares reasoning to soaping oneself, revealing the material dimension of language and, with it, human dignity.
Translation into Catalan by Ramón Girbau Pedragosa. The original work, Le savon, appeared in 1966.
For readers interested in experimental poetry and 20th-century French literature.
Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge was a French poet. He developed a form of prose poem, minutely examining everyday objects. He was the third recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1974.
