Éphraïm Mikhaël
Éphraïm-Georges Michel (called Éphraïm Mikhaël ; born June 25, 1866 in Toulouse , † May 5, 1890 in Paris ) was a French poet of Symbolism .
The first years
Éphraïm Mikhaël was the son of a Jewish merchant family from Toulouse. He first attended the Lycée in Toulouse and moved to Paris with his parents in 1881, where his father became a wine merchant and real estate agent. Mikhaël took part in the courses at the Lycée Fontanes, which was renamed Condorcet in 1883 . Then he enrolled at the Sorbonne for a degree in literary studies. After receiving it, he passed the entrance exam to the École des chartes in 1886 . There he met well-known authors such as André-Ferdinand Hérold , who had entered a year earlier and was also a poet of symbolism. The young Éphraïm-Georges Michel graduated there in 1889 with 8 out of 10 points after he had submitted a dissertation on Richard de Saint-Victor and took a position at the Bibliothèque nationale .
The poet
He wrote in parallel in several poetry magazines, especially in the "mardis de Mallarmé " and gathered around him a few young authors who became known as the Pleiades group , members were, for example, Rodolphe Darzens , Saint-Pol-Roux and Pierre Quillard . René Ghil described Éphraïm Mikhaël as "long and slender, the head red-haired and small, the face speckled with freckles, smiling, dancing a little with shyness and yet tough".
At the age of 20 he published his only volume of poetry, L'Automne (Der Herbst, 1886), which contains fourteen poems full of longing.
He also had the plays La Fiancée de Corinthe (The Bride of Corinth, 1888) and Le Cor fleuri (1888) performed. His third piece Briséïs was written in collaboration with Catulle Mendès and was set to music by Emmanuel Chabrier as an opera.
Ephraim Mikhael died in 1890 at the age of less than 24 years of tuberculosis . In the same year a work was published in one volume.
Works
- Le Cor fleuri , féerie en un acte, Paris: Tresse et Stock, 1888, 19 p., Joué au Théâtre Libre de Paris le 10 décembre 1888
- La Fiancée de Corinthe , légende dramatique en trois actes, avec Bernard Lazare , Paris: C. Dalou, 1888, 55 p.
- Œuvres , poésies, poèmes en prose, Paris: A. Lemerre, 1890, IV-277 p.
- Briséïs , drame en trois actes, avec Catulle Mendès , Paris: Dentu, v. 1900, 70 p.
- Lettres à Bernard Lazare, suivies de Sillafrida , Reims: À l'écart, 1992, 120 p.
- Œuvres complètes: aux origines du symbolisme , éd. D. Galparin et M. Jutrin, Lausanne: L'âge d'homme, 1995-2001, 2 vol.
Web links
- Information about Éphraïm Mikhaël (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Encyclopedia Universalis . French, accessed June 25, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mikhaël, Éphraïm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Michel, Éphraïm-Georges |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet of symbolism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1890 |
| Place of death | Paris |