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Verlaine
The contradictions of Verlaine's nature are mirrored in his verse, which is alternately mystic, sensuous, exquisite and prosaic. He had extraordinary lyric powers; he was a master of eerie harmonies such as few other poets have achieved, and, in Sagesse, he produced religious verse which challenges comparison with the very best of its kind. Yet here and there can be found a curious weakening in the texture of thought and inspiration: he turns and twists, takes flight, seeks reassurance in platitude and convention – marriage, dogmatic theology, reactionary political creeds. He is even capable of lamenting (as Rimbaud shows him in Une Saison en Enfer) the emotional and poetic experiments whi...
Arthur Rimbaud Primary Sources II
The Arthur Rimbaud: Primary Sources II series is a collection of the first extensive translations of the writings of people who knew the poet, and other material that is a must read for Rimbaldiens who want to better understand Arthur Rimbaud's life and work, and the times during which he lived. This volume contains: Georges Izambard, Rimbaud tel que je l'ai connu, (Rennes, France: Editions La part Commune, 2008).Georges Izambard, Lettres Inédites (Fac-similés) D'Arthur Rimbaud, Vers et Prose, Tome XXIV, (Janvier, Février-Mars 1911): 1-20.Malthide Delporte, ex-madame Verlaine, Mémoires Inédit de Madame Paul Verlaine, Verlaine et Rimbaud, Le Figaro, (16 March 1935).Malthide Delporte, ex-madame Verlaine, Mémoires Inédit de Madame Paul Verlaine, The Brussels Drama and Prison, Le Figaro, (23 March 1935). A. Rolland de Renéville, Rimbaud Le Voyant (Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1929). Colonel Godchot, Arthur Rimbaud, ne varietur 1854-1871 (Nice: Chez L'Auteur, 1936). Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, précédées d'une Notice par Théophile Gautier (Paris: Calmann-Levy) 1-75.C. A. Hackett, Rimbaud l'enfant (Paris: Librairie José Corti, 1947).
Mémoires de ma vie
L'auteur fut, pendant deux ans, la femme de Paul Verlaine. Une figure qui a pris dans l'oeuvre du poète une place contrastée. Dans ce livre, publié après sa mort par l'écrivain François Porché, qui en écrivit l'introduction, elle raconte ces deux années riches et difficiles, pour rétablir une vérité qu'elle estime avoir été mal comprise. Une belle découverte.
Absinthe--The Cocaine of the Nineteenth Century
With an alcohol content sometimes as high as 80 percent, absinthe was made by mixing the leaves of wormwood with other plants such as angelica root, fennel, coriander, hyssop, marjoram and anise for flavor. The result was a bitter, potent drink that became a major social, medical and political phenomenon during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; its popularity was mainly in France, but also in other parts of Europe and the United States, particularly in New Orleans. Absinthe produced a sense of euphoria and a heightening of the senses, similar to the effect of cocaine and opium, but was addictive and caused a rapid loss of mental and physical faculties. Despite that, Picasso, Manet, Rimbaud, Van Gogh, Degas and Wilde were among those devoted to its consumption and produced writings and art influenced by the drink. This work provides a history of "the green fairy", a study of its use and abuse, an exploration of the tremendous social problems (not unlike the cocaine problems of this century) it caused, and an examination of the extent to which the lives of talented young writers and artists of the period became caught up in the absinthe craze.
The Decadent World-View
The new collection features 14 essays relevant to the Literary Decadence movement, including pieces on: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Aloysius Bertrand, Theophile Gautier, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, and Anatole France. Complete with bibliography and index.
Of Love and Paris
The French may not have invented love but they perfected it, and the laboratory in which they did so was Paris. James Joyce called the city "a lamp for lovers, hung in the wood of the world." From the Middle Ages, Paris has drawn those who wish to experience the limits of love – intellectual, spiritual, carnal. In Of Love and Paris, John Baxter turns the spotlight on some of them, from the medieval troubadours who seduced court ladies with flowery verse to Man Ray, whose camera conferred immortality on his lover and model Kiki, and Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, who turned their moans of sexual pleasure into music. The grandes horizontales of the belle epoque, accomplished technicians o...
The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self
In The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self, Susan Harrow explores the fascinating interrelation of subjectivity, materiality, and representation in the poetry and related texts of four modern French writers: Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Francis Ponge, and Jacques Réda. She demonstrates the richness and the relevance of modern French poetry for today's readers, putting contemporary thought to work on the fractured self emerging in the post-Baudelairian lyric. Harrow addresses the widely perceived marginalization of poetry in the writing/theory debate, demonstrating that the emergence of a self at once shaped by and straining against material, historical, subjective, and cult...
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