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...femme sans passé, a grim story of a murderess' flight on a river barge; the Prix Théophraste Renaudot to Pierre Molaine (in real life Major Léopold Faure, tank officer in the French army) for his Les orgues de I'enfer, a story about a resistance fighter hiding from the Gestapo in an insane asylum. The fourth big prize, the Prix Interallié, was yet to come...
Between 15 and 19, Arthur Rimbaud wrote poetry whose slashing irony and pure music still influence poets. At 19 he wrote Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell), an obscure, agonized hodgepodge in which Rimbaud addicts* trace the wrestlings of his André Gide-like puritanism with his André Gide-like passions. But from then until he died, at 37, in a Marseille hospital, Arthur Rimbaud never wrote again. This amazing break with his genius, his lone-wolf prowlings through the lower depths of Europe, his gunrunning in Africa and Asia form a vague, provoking literary legend...
...Lisle, Verlaine and from the "Roman, de Tristan et Isent" by Joseph Bedier, in Sever 11, at 8 o'clock this evening. The following selections in prose and verse illustrating the life and poetic development of Paul Verlaine will read: "Son enfance blanche," "Ses debuts litteraires." "Seschutes successive," "L'enfer...
...FRENCH READING. Selections in Prose and Verse illustrating the Life and the Poetic Development of Paul Verlaine: (1) "Son enfance blanche;" (2) "Ses debuts litteraires;" (3) "Ses chutes successive;" (4) "L'enfer." Mr. Robert Dupouey, of the Ecole Normale, Paris. Sever...
...FRENCH READING. Selections in Prose and Verse illustrating the Life and the Poetic Development of Paul Verlaine: (1) "Son enfance blanche;" (2) "Ses debuts litteraires;" (3) "Ses chutes successives;" (4) "L'enfer." Mr. Robert Dupouey, of the Ecole Normale, Paris. Sever...