Paroles

In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prévert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. Fisrt published in 1946 by Les Editions de Minuit, a press with its origins in the Underground, Paroles met with enormus success, and there were several hundred thousand copies in print by the time these first translations in English were published by City Lights in 1958.