Aloysius Bertrand

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Aloysius Bertrand, French poet (1807–1841), Jardin de l'Arquebuse, Dijon

Aloysius Bertrand , actually Louis-Jacques-Napoléon Bertrand (born April 20, 1807 in Ceva , Piedmont , Italy , † April 29, 1841 in Dijon ), was a French poet.

Life and work

With Gaspard de la nuit (published posthumously in 1842) he introduced the prose poem into French literature. The book was a source of inspiration for the symbolist poets. Long unknown, it was discovered by Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé , is today considered a classic of poetic and fantastic literature and found significant musical expression in Ravel's piano piece of the same name . In 2002 a translation of his prose poem Hauptmann Lazare appeared in the annual publication for literature Muschelhaufen .

Bertrand died of tuberculosis at the age of 34 .

literature

  • Bertrand Guégan (ed.): Gaspard de la Nuit, Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot par Aloysius Bertrand. With a biographical introduction by Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve . Payot, Paris 1925. (French)
  • Aloysius Bertrand, Gaspard de la Nuit [1842]. Translated from the French by Jürgen Buchmann . With an essay by the translator. Leipzig 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shellfish. Annual journal for literature and graphics . No. 42. Viersen 2002, ISSN  0085-3593
  2. ↑ Sarah McCarry: A song so deep and distant . cbt Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-641-17130-8 ( google.de [accessed on May 11, 2020]).

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Bertrand, Aloysius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bertrand, Louis-Jacques-Napoléon (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Ceva , Piedmont , Italy
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1841
Place of death Dijon