Kirjahaku

This book is a basic text on Historical Materialism written for the common reader and not for other political theorists. It was used in political classes for workers in the council communist movement. It is even said to have had some influence on the early Chinese Communist movement.

Op 19 november 1916 overlijdt op vijftigjarige leeftijd Wies Cnoop Koopmans, de echtgenote van Herman Gorter. In de maanden daarna schrijft Gorter gedichten waarin hij zijn echtgenote herdenkt. Pas in 1925 verschijnt in een priv uitgave van drie exemplaren In memoriam; bij den dood eener communiste, een bundeling van 52 gedichten. Een handelsuitgave verschijnt in 1928, een jaar na Gorters dood. In de Gaia Chapbookreeks is nu een herdruk van In memoriam verschenen, met een uitgebreide inleiding door Gert de Jager.

Grand classique de la litt rature n erlandaise, traduit ici en fran ais pour la premi re fois, le Mai de Gorter est un po me de 4381 vers, c l brant l'arriv e du printemps. Aussi simple que a, mais quel monument Quand il publie "Mai", son fameux po me, en 1889, Herman Gorter n'a que vingt-cinq ans, il est un po te d'une originalit r volutionnaire, et il deviendra le repr sentant le plus marquant du "Mouvement de quatre-vingts", l'avant-garde de la litt rature de son temps.

May describes the magical journey of adolescence against the background of Holland's flowery dunescapes. In brush strokes of wonder-filled impressions a stunningly unspoiled girl, May, explores the promise of springtime and the intense spiritual life of youth. However, the cycle of life always moves on, and as May matures and returns to earth, she finds it readying for summer.When Herman Gorter published May (Dutch: Mei) in 1889, this spontaneous and vibrant epic poem was immediately recognized by his peers as a landmark work for Dutch literature. Inspired in part by John Keats' Endymion (1818), the poem touches upon a wide range of themes, including the innocence and wonder of childhood, the hubris and disillusionment of adolescence, unattainable divine love and the inevitability of transience, The work suggests that poetry itself may be the only way to preserve for eternity the essence of nature and of music.May was perhaps an inevitable product of the artistically revolutionary and highly lucid spirit in The Netherlands of the 1880s. While Gorter's contemporary, Vincent van Gogh, had just completed the groundbreaking Sunflowers series of paintings, Gorter succeeded with May to compose his own monument of colourful and innovative power.Second (revised) edition, English-only, including synopsis, foreword by poet Lloyd Haft and introduction by the translator.