Valery larbaud biography meaning
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As if she doesn’t have enough to do.
In addition to running her own English-language bookshop on rue de l’Odeon, Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, 37, has been working with her friends and regulars who hang out at the store to start a new literary magazine, Commerce.
The idea—and the money—comes from a fellow American ex-pat, the Princess Bassiano, the Duchess of Sermoneta, Otherwise known as Marguerite Chapin Caetani from Waterville, Connecticut, who moved to Paris at the turn of the century and bagged herself a Prince.
Marguerite Chapin Caetani, Princess Bassiano, the Duchess of Sermoneta
Marguerite has enlisted Sylvia’s partner, Adrienne Monnier, 32, who owns the French-language bookshop across the street, to be the publisher of Commerce. So far that means that Adrienne spent the whole summer trying to get some promised pieces from well-known poet Leon-Paul Fargue, 48, supposedly one of the magazine’s editors. Adrienne finally got him to dictate the poems so she could transcribe them, but now she’s exhausted. She even passed out in a restaurant one night.
The other editors/contributors, also poets, Valery Larbaud, 43, and Paul Valery, 53, have been working on translating segments of the magnum opus Ulysses by James Joyce, 42, publishe
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As the nineteenth century drew to an end in France, no poet came close to Victor Hugo in embodying the voice of the nation. As Graham Robb has shown in his excellent biography, Hugo’s position as national poet owed as much to the careful stage management of his public image as it did to his voicing of the social and political values that would emerge victorious after No sooner had the Second Empire fallen than Hugo, freshly returned from his self-imposed exile, was delivering rousing speeches on the streets of Paris; for years, his verse was recited spontaneously at gatherings of artists and republicans alike; on his eightieth birthday, thousands of admirers paraded past his house for several hours; and the sheer scale of his state funeral spoke of a national esteem enjoyed by no other writer. Not only was the spirit of republicanism concentrated in both his persona and his poetic voice, but as Mallarmé famously put it in ‘Crise de vers’, Hugo also seemed to embody the alexandrine, le vers national itself, in its most vibrant form. Robust, supple, endlessly energetic and with an unshakeable self-belief, ‘il était le vers personnellement’ (Mallarmé II: ). In a perfectly symbiotic relationship between national identity, authorial voice and literary f
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What might Larbaud have thought?
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