Christina Rossetti , Clémentine Beauvais & Diglee

Laura, Lizzie et les hommes-gobelins

October 13, 2023

Poetry

128 pages

19 €

978-2-3601-2158-8

Christina Rossetti, Laura, Lizzie et les hommes-gobelins

Goblin Market is a classic of English poetry, written in 1859 by the poet Christina Rossetti.
This metaphorical poem, her best-known text to date, brought her fame. Today, in a free translation by Clémentine Beauvais, and illustrated by Diglee, we invite you to (re)discover it.

Here’s what Clémentine Beauvais has to say about it:
“In your head and under your tongue, the fruits given up by the goblin-men to Laura and Lizzie will have a taste that Rossetti-la-Victorienne could never have anticipated. Your sisters are not his. The two damsels twisted in their white beds will be mingled with the candy sugar of your not-so-candid reading, flavors of cyprine and hints of feminist collage glue. Your goblins are not his. Your zorilla is that man who sticks to you in the subway, the one with the wombat head is your boss, your uncle, your best friend...”

the authors

Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) was an English poet. Mystical and melancholy, surprising and avant-garde, she is the author of a remarkable body of work.

Clémentine Beauvais writes and translates, mainly children’s literature. She is notably the author of Petites reines and Songe à la douceur for Sarbacane Editions. She has translated numerous novels by Elizabeth Acevedo, Sarah Crossan, as well as novels by Meg Rosoff and J.K. Rowling’s The Ickabog. Her books have won multiple national and international awards. She is also a research professor at the University of York, England.

Diglee is a French illustrator, comic book author and novelist. She recently published Libres et Baiser après #MeToo (with Ovidie). Her first literary story, Ressac, was published in 2021.
She also shared her love of poetry in Je serai le feu, an illustrated anthology featuring works by 50 female poets.

October 13, 2023

Poetry

128 pages

19 €

978-2-3601-2158-8