Jean Lorrain ( Fr. Jean Lorrain ; real name Paul Alexander Marten Duval, Fr. Paul Alexandre Martin Duval ; August 29, 1855 , Fécan, Seine-Maritime - June 30, 1906 , Paris ) - French poet and novelist of the Symbolist school.
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| Birth name | Paul Duvall |
| Date of Birth | August 29, 1855 |
| Place of Birth | Fekan |
| Date of death | June 30, 1906 (aged 50) |
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| Occupation | prose writer , poet |
| Direction | symbolism |
| Genre | poem, short story, novel |
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Biography
He studied law, but quit classes. He received the support of the famous writer Judith Gauthier , daughter of Theophile Gauthier . Since the mid-1870s, he began to appear in the literary and artistic circles of Paris, including the Black Cat cabaret, where Jean Moreas , Maurice Rollin , Jean Rishpen and others became his friends. He settled in Montmartre . He met Edmond de Goncourt , Sarah Bernhardt , wrote several plays for her. He competed in dendism (and to no avail) with the aristocratic Robert de Montesquieu , often found himself at the center of various scandals and willingly went on scandal: in one of the novels he insulted Maupassant (they were comrades in childhood) and barely escaped a duel with him, participated in a duel with Proust , publishing a destructive review of his book of Joy and Days , etc. In the 1880s he met Guysmans , Barbe d'Oreville , Leon Blois , in the 1890s became close to Liane de Pouge , who dedicated the Elusive novel ( 1898 ) to him. He wrote several songs for Yvette Gilber . He used drugs (ether), was known for homoerotic relationships (a later biographer calls Lorrain the envoy of Sodom in Paris at the end of the century ). He was operated several times in connection with intestinal ulcers . Long-standing heart disease, drug addiction and syphilis caused his premature death.
Creativity
Lorren was a typical decadent , he wrote several collections of poems and short stories, plays, novels, the most famous of which is “Astarte (Monsieur de Focas)” ( 1901 ). He was actively involved in journalism, kept a theatrical chronicle, published travel notes, and became one of the most highly paid journalists of the era. After death, he was forgotten for a long time, but in recent decades, interest in his figure and books as one of the incarnations of a beautiful era has been growing again in France and abroad. Since 1996 , the Society of Friends of Jean Lorrain has been operating in Fokan.
Selected Works
- La forêt bleue ( 1883 , poems)
- Sonyeuse ( 1891 , novel)
- L'ombre ardente ( 1897 , poems)
- Histoires des masques ( 1900 novel)
- Monsieur de Phocas ( 1901 , novel)
Recognition
Member of the Goncourt Academy ( 1896 ). In Russia, Lorren’s poems were translated by Mikhail Kuzmin and others.
Publications in Russian
- The poetry of French symbolism. M.: Publishing House of Moscow State University, 1993, p. 141-144
Notes
Literature
- Gaubert E. Jean Lorrain . Paris: E. Sansot & cie, 1905
- Kyria P. Jean Lorrain . Paris: Seghers, 1973.
- Jullian ph. Jean Lorrain ou Le satiricon 1900 . Paris: Fayard, 1974.
- Santos J. L'art du récit court chez Jean Lorrain . Paris: Nizet, 1995.
- Winn ph. Sexualités décadentes chez Jean Lorrain: le héros fin de sexe . Amsterdam; Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997
- Anthonay Th. d '. Jean Lorrain: miroir de la Belle Époque . Paris: Fayard, 2005.