''Paroles'' (; "Words") is a collection of poems by
Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert (; 4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the Poetic realism, poetic ...
, first published in 1946.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and ...
's translation of 44 poems from this collection was published by
Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a Germany, German-owned English publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers the Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the ...
in the 1960s, under the title ''Selections from Paroles''.
A sound recording of his reading the poems was made in the 1950s.
It was ranked 16th in
''Le Monde'''s 100 Books of the Century.
References
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1946 poetry books
French poetry collections
20th-century French literature
Works by Jacques Prévert