Jacques d'Adelsverd-Fersen ( French Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen , February 20, 1880 , Paris - November 5, 1923 , Capri ) - French aristocrat of Swedish descent, dandy , symbolist writer of the beautiful era .
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Biography
Baron, a descendant of the famous diplomat and commander Hans Axel von Fersen . At 22, he received a huge inheritance. He served in the army, traveled, began to write poetry and prose, a collection of his poems Light Songs ( 1900 ) came out with a foreword by Edmond Rostan . For organizing black masses - homosexual parties with teenagers in his Parisian mansion, he was arrested, sentenced to 6 months in prison, a heavy monetary fine, and deprived of civil rights for 5 years. After that, he retired to Capri, where, near the former emperor’s villa, Tiberius, Jupiter built himself in 1905 a villa Lysy (named after the hero of the Platonic dialogue about friendship), on which he lived with his constant young companion Nino Cesarini, known for his portrait of Paul Hoecker and photographs of William von Plyushov . The Latin inscription AMORI ET DOLORI SACRVM ( Shrine of Love and Sorrow ) was engraved on the pediment of the villa. Fersen became the center of a homosexual circle of writers, artists, musicians and just curious wealthy tourists, an eccentric attraction of the island.
He published the monthly journal of liberal arts and criticism Akademos ( 1909 , 12 issues were published), which published Maxim Gorky , Henri Barbus , Emil Verharn , Colette , Jean Moreas , Laurent Tayyad , Joseph Peladan , Anatole France , Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , Claude Farrer and others.
Published several books of poetry, two novels. I used drugs all the time. Committed suicide by drinking champagne with an excess dose of cocaine .
Books
- Conte d'amour , poems ( 1898 )
- Chansons légères , poems ( 1900 )
- Musique sur tes lèvres (Ebauches et Débauches) ( 1901 )
- L'Hymnaire d'Adonis: à la façon de M. le marquis de Sade ( 1902 )
- Notre-Dame des mers mortes (Venise) ( 1902 )
- Les cortèges qui sont passés , poems ( 1903 )
- L'Amour enseveli: poèmes ( 1904 )
- Lord Lyllian , novel ( 1905 , reprint 2011)
- Ainsi chantait Marsyas ... , poems ( 1907 )
- Une jeunesse (1907)
- Le baiser de Narcisse , novel (1907, reprinted 1912)
- Et le feu s'éteignit sur la mer ( 1909 )
- Hei Hsiang (Le parfum noir) ( 1921 )
Fame and Posthumous Fate
Ottorino Respighi wrote music to the poems of the baron. As a hero, he appears in the works of Edwin Cheriot (The Marquis of Pommery, 1927 ), Compton Mackenzie (The Fire of Vesta, 1927), Alfred Jarry (The Green Candle, publ. 1969 ), Roger Payrefitt (Sent to Capri , 1959 ), the memoirs of Norman Douglas . Fersen's prose has recently been reprinted, translated into several European languages. His villa to this day attracts many tourists.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ LIBRIS - 2014.
Literature
- Dossier Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen / Patrick Cardon, ed. Lille: Cahiers Gay-Kitsch-Camp, 1993
- Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen - Dandy und Poet / Wolfram Setz (Hrsg.). Hamburg: Männerschwarmskript-Verlag, 2005
- Marcos P. Renaître païen à la Belle Époque: la vie et l'oeuvre de Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen. Paris: Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2008 (dissertation)