La Fanfarlo
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The autobiographical novella La Fanfarlo by the French poet Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (1821–1867) was published in 1847 and deals with Baudelaire's love affair with his muse Jeanne Duval (around 1820–1862). Baudelaire met the actress and dancer in 1842.
action
On a walk in the Jardin du Luxembourg, the young poet Samuel Cramer meets Madame de Cosmelly, a friend from her youth. As a young, inexperienced girl, she had married the first man who had asked for her hand. She confides in Cramer that she is disappointed with her marriage and that her husband suspects that she is cheating on her with another woman. Cramer promises to look into the matter, but now falls in love with the seductive Fanfarlo himself.
Text output
After La Revue de Paris refused to print the novella, it appeared in January 1847, edited by Charles Asselineau , in the Bulletin de la Société des Gens de Lettres
- La Fanfarlo avec neuf dessins de Baudelaire, dont un inédit. Bayeux: Babel librairie 1928. (Editions de la Sirène.)
- Œuvres complètes de Baudelaire. Édition de Claude Pichois . Nouvelle éd. Vol 1. Paris: Gallimard 1975. pp. 1413-1417. (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade).
- Critical edition.
- German translations
- The Fanfarlo. German by Hans Kauders. Munich: Rech 1923.
- The Fanfarlo. Translated by Terese Robinson . Munich: Georg Müller 1925.
- New edition Dresden: Mons Verlag 2016. ISBN 978-3-946368-37-3
- The Fanfarlo. Transfer from Walter Fabian . Herrliberg-Zurich: Bühl 1948.
- The dancer Fanfarlo and the whimsy of Paris. Prose poems. Translated from the French by Walther Küchler . Zurich: Diogenes 1977. (Diogenes-Taschenbuch 144).
literature
- Elisabeth Oehler: From sonnet to prose. La Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire. Cologne: Dohr 1999. ISBN 3-92536670-9