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Edouard-Joachim Corbière , known as Tristan Corbière , born the July 18th 1845 with the manor of Coat-Congar with Morlaix (Brittany) and dead on March 1st 1875 with Morlaix, is a Poète French.

Biography

He was born from the union of Edouard Corbière and Angelica Aspasie Puyo which 33 years separate: with his birth, his/her father is 52 years old, and his mother of 19.

After a childhood passed without history in the manor of Launay, Tristan is sent to the 14 years age in pension with the imperial college of Saint-Brieuc. It is at that time that it starts to suffer from the rheumatoid arthritis which will waste the existence to him and which will be right of him. Its worsening health condition, it must leave Saint-Brieuc the following year to join his/her uncle doctor established with Nantes. It enters to the college of Nantes in the capacity as external. Two years later, its health condition obliges it to cease its studies. Begin a life of marginal then; he travels in the south of France, where he reads works of Hugo, of Baudelaire, of Musset.

He settles with Roscoff in a house which his/her parents have. The inhabitants of the village call it the “Ankou”, i.e. the spectrum of death, because of its thinness and its dislocated pace. He likes to take the sea on his boat, the Slave trader (title of the most famous novel of his/her father) and devotes himself to some eccentricities. He has fun one day to disguise himself as a convict, as a woman or while begging, the other to shave the eyebrows or even, whereas he is in visit in Rome, to trail a pig leaves some disguised as a bishop at the time of the carnival to which the pope assists. Thus run out its days, until its meeting with a small Parisian actress that Corbière enjoys to call Marcelle, of her true name Armida Josefina Cuchiani; it becomes its MUSE.

Forsaking its first name of registry office, Edouard-Joachim, to take that, more evocative, of Tristan (for SAD IN BODY BEER), it makes appear on account of author in 1873 his single collection of poems, the yellow Loves , which passes unperceived. Corbière, who was not any success of alive sound, will be revealed in a posthumous way by Verlaine, which devotes to him a chapter of its test the cursed Poets (1883). The collection is also in good place in the élitiste library of Of Esseintes, the hero of In Rebours : this presence in the work of Huysmans will contribute to make known the poet with the public.

The poet who dreamed to be a sailor could not satisfy his desire to run the seas, but he liked the sea like insane.

Corbière dies in Morlaix on March 1st 1875. He is not thirty years old and knew only one life of loneliness, short and miserable, constantly reached in its flesh by the disease, unhappy in love, limed in a single and sordid passion; no doubt, with appeared, the sea was his true wife. Time returned the poet to the light, and recognized, well late, its talent.

The name of the yellow Loves , its single collection, was given to the old public library Morlaix.

Its poetry

Tristan Corbière in particular drew from the Breton legends; it as took as a starting point the people as it côtoyait, painting for example crowd pressing with the forgiveness Holy-Anne-the-Fen, defending Brittany with a voice often powerful and contained. It was also made the committed defender of the Breton conscripts forgotten under conditions of great destitution in the military camp of Conlie (the Sarthe) in 1870.

It is however necessary to take care not to make of Corbière a regional or regionalistic poet: its varied work is addressed to which wants and can to hear it.

The topics of this poetry are indeed particularly heteroclite: the yellow Loves evoke the modern big city and the Breton countryside, febrility - or lightness - in love with the poet and the virile life of the sailors, the old legends and the historical events of its time. But this diversity “is marked with the seal of the force and a powerful originality”, as he was written in one of the rare reports of the yellow Amours during their publication.

The sources of the poetry of Tristan are they also singularly multiple: Corbière was strongly marked by the romanticism, but its work also draws, in various manners, in the 17th century, the poetry of the 16th century, and until that of Villon. All these influences are turned by Corbière towards the modernity of its time: it is one of the sizes of its work.

Works

yellow Loves (1873) Text in line

Republications (followed found Poems and of Works in prose ): Poetry/Gallimard, 1973; LGF, 2003; (choice of poems), Threshold, 2004.

critical Editions: Charles Cros, Tristan Corbière, complete Works , ED. Pierre-Olivier Walzer and Francis F. Burch for Corbière, Gallimard, coll Library of the Pleiad, 1970; yellow Loves , ED. Elisabeth Aragon and Claude Bonnin, University Presses of Mirail, 1992.

Settings in music

Jean D' Udine d' Albert Cozanet, Rondels for after , Voice, piano, Ménestrel, 1923 (partition being at Bibliothèue main road of France, department music).
Albert Huybrechts, Eunuch flute , for Soprano, 1934.
Robert Casadesus, Three rondels for after of 1935, COp 21, Voice, piano, G. Casadesus, 1998 (partition being at the National library of France, department music).
Tristan Corbière. Yellow Loves , EPM, coll Poets and songs, 2005 (disc gathering the settings in musics of Leonardi Lino sung in 1975 and for some with the beginning of the year 1990 by his/her partner Monique Morelli, as well as settings in music sung by Pascal Neighed in 1997).
Serge Kerguiduff, Kerguiduff sings Tristan Corbière , Vélia, 1976.
Fanny De Lannion, the Cutter the Slave trader , in In Brest the pretty one: songs of port , the Fish-wagon/Armen, 1994 (version of the setting in music of Leonardi Lino).
Antoine Duhamel, the impossible song of the sailors in music of '' Matelots '', voice and orchestra, diffused on France Musique in January 2006, emission Preceded Musica.
the compositrice Michele Reverdy also put in music several poems of Tristan Corbière.
Diamanda Official receptions, singer of American avant-garde of Greek origin, put in music in 1986 Cris of blind man , of Corbière, in the album Saint off the Pit .
Casino of the departeds, 1997, disc of 16 songs with a full orchestra, put in music by Stephan Leach and Pascal Neighed, sung by Neighed Pascal. This album emphasizes “elegant cynicism” and the “masterpiece of cabaret” which Tristan Corbière evoked. A musical production very baroque was created in 1999 on the National scene of Quimper.

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