
AURORE
FRAGMENTS DU NARCISSE
LA PYTHIE
ÉBAUCHE D’UN SERPENT
LE CIMETIÈRE MARIN
PALME
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
An exuberant opening bursts into light, where a restless mind shakes off melancholy like dawn’s shadows. The narrator slips into a cascade of images—sun‑kissed roses, buzzing bees, golden ladders—each line a breath of confidence and wonder. This first act reads like a waking prayer, inviting the listener to follow a journey through interior landscapes woven with silk‑soft metaphors.
The work then turns toward the ancient platane, its towering limbs becoming a dialogue between solidity and wind, between the yearning of verses and the stubbornness of roots. Through vivid, almost tactile descriptions, the poet explores how ideas cling like spider‑webs, how hope swims in invisible pools, and how the desire for transcendence trembles at the edge of consciousness. Listeners will be carried on a rhythmic tide of lyricism that balances sensual richness with philosophical inquiry, leaving space for personal reflection without revealing the story’s later twists.
Language
fr
Duration
~1 hours (60K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
France: Gallimard, 1926.
Credits
Laurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
Release date
2023-06-27
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1871–1945
A leading French poet, essayist, and thinker of the early 20th century, he is best known for the musical, intellectually rich poem "Le Cimetière marin" and for writing with unusual precision about art, language, and the mind. After an early burst of poetry, he spent years in near silence before returning to literature and becoming one of France’s most influential literary voices.
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