Jules Laforgue

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Jules Laforgue (born August 16, 1860 in Montevideo , † August 20, 1887 in Paris ) was a French poet. His works are counted as symbolism .

Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue (left) and Charles Ephrussi (right) in Pierre-Auguste Renoir : The Rowers' Breakfast (detail)

Life

Jules Laforgue was born in Montevideo into a family of emigrants. At the age of six he returned to France, where he attended high school in Tarbes . After failing high school several times, he became secretary to Charles Ephrussi , an art critic and collector, on the recommendation of his friends Gustave Kahn and Paul Bourget . After the death of his father in 1881, he went to Berlin, where he was a reader for Empress Augusta , Wilhelm I's wife. In 1886 he met the Englishwoman Sarah Lee, whom he married soon after. Already ill he returned to Paris, where he died in 1887 at the age of 27. He worked for various magazines such as Gazette des Beaux-Arts , La Revue Indépendante , Le Décadent , La Vogue , Le Symboliste and La Vie Moderne .

literature

Works

  • Les complaintes (poems, 1885).
  • L'imitation de Notre-Dame de la Lune (Poems, 1886).
  • Le concile féerique (poems, 1886).
  • Moralités légendaires ( short stories, 1887).

German translations

  • Pierrot the joker . Translated by Franz Blei , Insel, Frankfurt a. M. 1965.
  • H amlet or the consequences of filial loyalty and other legendary moralities . Translated by Klaus Ley , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1981.
  • Berlin. The court and the city . Insel, Frankfurt a. M. 2002, ISBN 3-458-08943-8 .
  • Poetic works: lamentations. The successor to our dear Mrs. Mond. Flowers of the best will. Last verses . 2002.

Secondary literature

  • Michele Hannoosh: Parody and Decadence: Laforgue's Moralités légendaires. Ohio State University Press, Columbus OH 1989. ISBN 0814204805 ( digitized version on the publisher's pages in full access)

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Laforgue, Jules
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1887
Place of death Paris