| 雷·德·古爾蒙 | |||||
| 出生地： | 巴佐謝奧烏爾姆 | ||||
| 去世地： | 巴黎 | ||||
| 陵墓： | 拉雪茲神父公墓 | ||||
閱讀古爾蒙 Remy de Gourmont在诗海的作品!!! | |||||
“是法國後期象徵主義詩壇的領袖，他的詩有着絶妙地微妙——心靈的微妙與感覺的微妙、他的詩情完全是呈給讀者的神經，給微細到纖毫的感覺的、即使是無韻詩，但是讀者會覺得每一篇中都有着很個性的音樂。”（戴望舒語），《西茉納集》是他的代表作。雷·德·古爾蒙（Remy de Gourmont，1858年4月4日－1915年9月27日），法國象徵主義詩人和小說傢。出生於巴佐謝奧烏爾姆。曾工作於法國國傢圖書館。1915年因中風在巴黎去世。葬於拉雪茲神父公墓。
(The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, although very common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work.)
De Gourmont came from a publishing family from Cotentin. He was the son of count Auguste-Marie de Gourmont and his countess, born Mathilde de Montfort. In 1866 he moved to a manor close to Villedieu near La Manche. He studied law at Caen, and was awarded a bachelor's degree in law in 1879; upon his graduation he moved to Paris.
In 1881, de Gourmont was employed by the Bibliothèque Nationale. He began to write for general circulation periodicals such as Le Monde and Le Contemporain. He took an interest in ancient literature, following the footsteps of Gustave Kahn. During this period, he also met Berthe Courrière, model and heir of the sculptor Auguste Clésinger, which whom he struck a lifelong attachment. The two lived together for the rest of their lives.
De Gourmont also began a literary alliance with Joris-Karl Huysmans, to whom he dedicated his prose work le Latin mystique ("Mystical Latin"). In 1889 de Gourmont became one of the founders of the Mercure de France. In 1891 he published a political polemic called Le Joujou Patriotisme ("Patriotism - a toy") which argued that France and Germany shared an aesthetic culture and urged a rapprochement between the two countries, contrary to the wishes of nationalists in the French government. The fallout from this political essay led to his losing his job at the Bibliothèque Nationale, in despite of Octave Mirbeau's chronicles.
During this same period, de Gourmont was stricken with the disease lupus vulgaris. Disfigured by this illness, he largely retired from public view, appearing only at the offices of the Mercure de France. In 1910, de Gourmont met Natalie Clifford Barney, to whom he dedicated his Lettres à l'Amazone ("Letters to the Amazon").
However, de Gourmont's health continued to decline during this period, and he began to suffer from locomotor ataxia and be increasingly unable to walk. He was deeply depressed by the outbreak of World War I as well, and died of cerebral congestion in 1915. Berthe Courrière was his sole heir; she inherited a substantial body of unpublished work from him, which she sent to his brother Jean de Gourmont; she died within a year of his death. De Gourmont is buried in Père-Lachaise.
Works
His poetic works include Litanies de la rose (1892), Les Saintes du paradis (1898), and Divertissements (1912). His poems plunge from perhaps ironic piety to equally ironic blasphemy; they reflect, more than anything else, his interest in mediæval Latin literature, and his works led to a fad for late Latin literature among authors like Joris-Karl Huysmans. He was also a literary critic of great importance, and was admired by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound in that capacity.
Selected works
Prose
Sixtine, roman de la vie cérébrale
Lettres à l'Amazone
Le latin mystique
Le joujou patriotisme
Le Livre des masques
Esthétique de la langue française
Physique de l'amour
Poetry
Litanies de la rose
Les Saintes du paradis
Divertissements
Les feuilles mortes
Quotation
Que tes mains soient bénies, car elles sont impures!
Elles ont des péchés cachés à toutes les jointures;
Leur peau blanche s'est trempée dans l'odeur âpre des caresses
Secrètes, parmi l'ombre blanche où rampent les caresses,
Et l'opale prisonnière qui se meurt à ton doigt,
C'est le dernier soupir de Jésus sur la croix.
---Oraisons mauvaises
References
This article contains information translated from the French Wikipedia.
^ Denkinger, Marc (December, 1937). "Remy de Gourmont Critique". PMLA 52 (4): 1148. Denkiger refers to the disease as "lupus tuberculeux", apparently lupus vulgaris, which is a form of tuberculosis of the skin, unrelated to systemic lupus erythematosus, the disease now commonly known as lupus.