Haunted House

By Pierre Reverdy

Fiction. Translated from the French by John Ashbery. Pierre Reverdy's short story HAUNTED HOUSE, originally published in 1930 in a collection of prose tales called Risques et Perils, is very different than his typically oblique, allusive and dreamlike poetry. Rife with mock rhetorical grandeur and ironic asides, HAUNTED HOUSE was lauded and included in Andre Breton's list of ten books he would take to a desert island. John Ashbery is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and has translated the works of Stephane Mallarme, Giorgio de Chirico, Raymond Roussel, Max Jacob and Alfred Jarry. Since 1990 he has been the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934029017
• ISBN13: 9781934029015
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Black Square Editions
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 6.0"