Renée Vivien

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Renée Vivien

Renée Vivien (actually Pauline Mary Tarn ; born June 11, 1877 in London , † November 10, 1909 in Paris ) was a British poet and one of the last representatives of Symbolism .

Life

Renée Vivien was the daughter of a Scottish father and an American mother. After her school days, which she completed in New York , Paris and London, she settled in Paris as a (by inheritance wealthy) writer. Already during her school days she was noticed by her affection for her childhood friend Violet Shillito . Vivien was known for her eccentric clothing style and for her open commitment to her lesbian leanings. She had a stormy affair with Natalie Clifford Barney in 1900/01. She was very cultured and traveled a lot. Renée Vivien published many of her works under the pseudonym Paule Riversdale .

In 1908 Vivien attempted suicide while in London, but it failed. When she died in Paris the following year at the age of 32 on November 10, 1909, a suicide was also suspected. But since she was already severely ill with anorexia nervosa at that time and was weakened by drinking alcohol , that could also have been the cause of death. She found her final resting place in the Passy cemetery .

Works

  • A l'heure des mains jointes. Poèmes , Paris 1906
  • Cendres et poussières. Poèmes , Deforges, Paris 1977, ISBN 2-901980-60-0
  • The lady and the she-wolf. Stories , Poli-Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-9800536-0-1
  • Dans un coin de violettes , Sansot Paris 1910
  • Evocations , Lemerre, Paris 1905
  • Flambeaux éteints , Paris
  • Haillons , Sansot, Paris 1910
  • Le jardin turc. Prose inédite , Edition A l'écart, Jonchery-sur-Vesle 1982
  • A woman appeared to me ... , Edition Daphne, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-89137-018-0
  • Poésies complètes , Deforges, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-905538-14-7
  • Sappho et huit poétesses grecques , Lemerre, Paris 1909 ( online )
  • Sillages. Poèmes , Paris 1921
  • Vagabondages. Poèmes , Paris 1911
  • Levent de vaisseaux , Sansot, Paris 1910
  • La Vénus des aveugles , Edition la Bartavelle, Charlieu 1992, ISBN 2-87744-110-5

literature

  • Natalie Clifford Barney : Adventures of the mind , University Press, New York 1992, ISBN 0-8147-1178-2
  • Teresa Campi: Sul ritmo saffico. La vita e le opere di Renée Vivien , Bulzoni, Rome 1983
  • André Germain : Renée Vivien , Crés, Paris 1917
  • Jean-Paul Goujon: Renée Vivien à Mytilene , Edition A l'écart, Reims 1978
  • Jean-Paul Goujon: Tes blesures sont plus douces que leurs careses , Deforges, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-905538-15-5
  • Karla Jay : The amazon and the page. Natalie Clifford Barney and Renée Vivien , Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind. 1988, ISBN 0-253-30408-3
  • PauL Lorenz: Sappho 1900. Renée Vivien , Julliard, Paris 1977
  • Maria-Mercè Marçal: In the footsteps of Renée Vivien: Roman , from Catalan. trans. by Theres Moser, Vienna: Milena-Verl., 1998, ISBN 3-85286-062-8

Web links

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