Théophile Gautier Libri

Un indecifrabile personaggio dall'inquietante, ambigua sessualità in cui sembra rivivere il mito dell'androgino, un "doppio amore", la finzione come estrema rivelazione della realtà: questo libro irriverente, bizzarra fantasia di pezzi lirici, di confidenze in forma epistolare, di fantasticherie, questo inno alla Bellezza allegramente immorale e provocatorio, spregiudicato e antiborghese rivelò di colpo il talento del giovane Gautier, suscitando reazioni scandalizzate ma anche, negli anni, l'ammirazione incondizionata di scrittori come Balzac e Hugo, Baudelaire e Sainte-Beuve, Swinburne e Wilde...

Una notte di maltempo un gruppo di comici girovaghi bussa, chiedendo ospitalità, alla porta dello scalcinato castello dove il giovane barone di Sigognac trascorre miseramente i suoi giorni in triste solitudine... Con questo inizio quasi fiabesco prende il via Le Capitaine Fracasse che Théophile Gautier pubblicò nel 1863 dopo circa trent'anni di incubazione, accorata protesta contro l'impoetica realtà quotidiana e al tempo stesso nostalgica rievocazione dell'acceso clima romantico della sua giovinezza: un capolavoro entrato a pieno diritto nei grandi classici della letteratura francese, che mescola sapientemente grazia e ironia, poesia e avventura, sorretto da una lingua prodigiosa (qui resa al meglio dall'esemplare traduzione di Massimo Bontempelli), sbalorditivamente ricca e suggestiva, plastica e sonora.

In una Napoli calda e luminosa, in una terra che è espressione del mito romantico, si intrecciano due vicende fantastiche. Due vicende che sono avvolte in un doppio velo onirico. Théophile Gautier ha la capacità di far lievitare i colori dei luoghi e della storia in un mare magnum di sensazioni ora chiare ora meno nitide. Jettatura è la storia di una identità sdoppiata e della trasfigurazione di una bellezza nella morte. La città di Pompei, bella, antica, magica, viene a delinearsi come un sogno d'amore e diventa teatro di una illusione perfetta, di un inganno che coinvolge tutti i sensi. Donne volatili e destinate a svanire nei loro pallori si muovono su paesaggi colorati lasciando in noi lettori una forte sensazione di magia.

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Set against a backdrop of forbidden love, the story unfolds as an elderly priest recounts his deep, unyielding passion for a vampiress named Clarimonde. On the day of his Ordination, he is captivated by her otherworldly beauty, which tempts him to abandon his vows. Despite warnings from Father Serapion about her dark past, Romulad's obsession leads him to seek her out, igniting a transformative love affair that defies the boundaries of life and death. This tale explores themes of desire, sacrifice, and the supernatural.

Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier (1811-1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. In the 1830 Revolution, he chose to stay with friends in the Doyenne district of Paris, living a rather pleasant bohemian life. He began writing poetry as early as 1826 but the majority of his life was spent as a contributor to various journals, mainly for La Presse, which also gave him the opportunity for foreign travel and meeting many influential contacts in high society and in the world of the arts, which inspired many of his writings including Voyage en Espagne (1843), Tresors d Art de la Russie (1858), and Voyage en Russie (1867). He was a celebrated abandonnee of the Romantic Ballet, writing several scenarios, the most famous of which is Giselle. His prestige was confirmed by his role as director of Revue de Paris from 1851-1856. During this time, he became a journalist for Le Moniteur universel, then the editorship of influential review L Artiste in 1856. His works include: Albertus (1830), La Comedie de la Mort (1838), Une Larme du Diable (1839), Constantinople (1853) and L Art Moderne (1856).

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: HIS LIFE --- By Théophile Gautier --- With poems translated by Guy Thorne --- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet's poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who produced some of the finest poems in the French language. Baudelaire was known as a dandy who led a bohemian lifestyle; he knew many of the artists of the era (Manet, Nadar, Delacroix, and Gautier). Baudelaire's influence on subsequent poets and artists has been immense. This book by Charles Baudelaire's friend Théophile Gautier is an important early study of the poet. Gautier offers a biography of the poet, and looks at his work. In the second part, Guy Thorne translates a selections of Baudelaire's poems, including from his two best-known collections - the Flowers of Evil and the Little Poems In Prose. A group of letters from Baudelaire are also included, and an essay on Baudelaire's influence. --- Illustrated. 204 pages. Paperback, with a full colour cover.With the French text of Baudelaire's poetry. www.crmoon.com