Gustave Roud

from Air of Solitude
Translated from the French by Sean T. Reynolds & Alexander Dickow
(Prose / Winter 2021)

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Gustave Roud (1897–1976) was a major Swiss poet and photographer whose neoromantic poetic prose influenced a generation of poets including Maurice Chappaz and Philippe Jaccottet. His works include Ecrits (1950) and Campagne perdue (1972). He also translated German writers including Rilke, Hölderlin and Novalis.