Poète maudit

Poète maudit (German poet ostracized ) denotes a typed since the second half of the 19th century living in literary and artistic circles. As Poète maudit applies the talented avant-garde writer who places himself at the margins of society and its values ​​, which he suffers as a vulgar, pushing back a provocative and often self-destructive manner. Also means that his artistic work only after his (often early ) death is recognized to the type of Poète maudit.

Analogously, the term the poet, " la race toujours les maudit par puissants de la terre " appears for the first time ( " which has always been ostracized by the powerful of the earth race" ) are mentioned in Alfred de Vigny, Stello in the drama from 1832. But he was permanently imprint of the book Les poètes maudits by Paul Verlaine, published in 1884 and is a tribute to the poet of the Parnassian group during the late Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Verlaine herein presents the people and the creation of Tristan corbière, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marceline Desbordes - Valmore, Villiers de L' Isle Adam and his own under the pseudonym Pauvre Lelian ( an anagram of his own name ).

As a prototype of Poète maudit is already François Villon, but the type is ultimately a manifestation of modernity. Particularly noteworthy are the French poet of transition from Romanticism to Symbolism and Impressionism, ie. Besides those presented by Verlaine authors, for example, Gérard de Nerval, Charles Baudelaire and Alfred Jarry and the Baudelaire in France, home -made Edgar Allan Poe

The term has also skipped genre boundaries in the 20th century and found on other artists as a pure poet application. As poètes maudits example, Jim Morrison or Klaus Kinski apply.

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