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The Prophecies Nostradamus Translated with a Foreword and Notes by Richard Sieburth Introduction by Stéphane Gerson The mysterious quatrains of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating for their predictions. Nostradamus has been credited with anticipating the Great Fire of London, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Today, as the world grapples with financial meltdowns, global terrorism, and environmental disasters—as well as the Mayan prediction of the apocalypse on December 12, 2012—his prophecies of doom have assumed heightened relevance. How has The Prophecies outlasted most books from the Renaissance? This edition considers its legacy in terms of the poetics of the quatrains, published here in a brilliant new translation and with introductory material and notes mapping the cultural, political, and historical forces that resonate throughout Nostradamus’s epic, giving it its visionary power. nostRAdAMus (1503–1566) was a French doctor, astrologer, and seer believed to have predicted major world events. RiChARd sieBuRth is an award-winning translator of works by Henri Michaux, Michel Leiris, George Büchner, Walter Benjamin, and Friedrich Hölderlin. His translation for Penguin Classics of Gerard de Nerval’s Selected Writings won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize. Sieburth teaches French and comparative literature at New York University. stéPhAne geRson is an award-winning historian of modern France and the author of a major cultural history of Nostradamus since the Renaissance. He teaches French history at New York University. The world’s final age drawing ever close, Slow Saturn again making a return: Empire transferred toward the nation of Brodde, Vulture plucking out the eye at Narbonne. (3.92) Tears, shrieks, & moans, vociferation, fright Inhuman heart, cruel, & blacker than stone: In Leman & Genoa’s greater isles, Bloodshed, no wheat to eat, no mercy shown. (6.81) Now that the Moon for twenty years has reigned, Seven thousand more shall it last as king: When the Sun resumes its remaining days My prophecy’s fulfillment it shall bring. (1.48) Media Tied to St. Martin’s Press Publication of Stéphane Gerson’s Nostradamus National Publicity Online Publicity Radio Advertising Academic Marketing
In time for the end of the world: the first major literary presentation of Nostradamus’s Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholars n A hardcover dual-language edition with the English and French on facing pages n Publishing simultaneously with Stéphane Gerson’s Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom (St. Martin’s Press) n First time in Penguin Classics iSBN 978-0-14-3106753 $28.00 ($29.50 CAN) Poetry 6 x 9 400 pp. Rights: W00 A Penguin Classics Hardcover Original On sale: 7/31/2012 SuGGeSTeD ORDeR PeNGuiN ClASSiC AuGuST 117
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