Catulle Mendès

Catulle Mendès (May 22nd 1841, Bordeaux - February 7th 1909, Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer) is a writer and Poète French.

Biography

After a childhood and an adolescence with Toulouse, Mendès arrives at Paris in 1859 and quickly becomes one of protected from Théophile Gautier. It is made known as of 1860 by melting the Whimsical Review in which collaborates in particular Villiers of Isle-Adam. It publishes in 1863 its first collection of poems, Philoméla . Following a voyage in Germany which leaves it dazzled, Catulle Mendès lines up with heat in the camp of the defenders of the type-setter Richard Wagner.

Catulle Mendès joined then the group of writers which meets at Leconte de Lisle: François Coppée, Leon Dierx and José-Maria de Heredia or Theodore de Banville in particular is accustomed. The Parnassus was born, whose Mendès will be made the historian by publishing later the Legend of the contemporary Parnassus . It takes an active part for this reason in the collective review the contemporary Parnassus .

Catulle Mendès marries Judith Gautier, girl of Théophile Gautier, in 1866. The couple will not last. Towards 1869, Catulle Mendès is put in household with the compositrice Augusta Holmès. The couple will have five children before separating in 1886, three among his/her daughters are besides the subject of the famous table of Auguste Renoir, the girls of Catulle Mendès , currently possession of the Metropolitan Museum off Art of New York (one, Hélyonne, will marry Henri Barbusse). Mendès will marry then with the poetess Jeanne Nette, which will be his/her last partner.

The lifeless body of Catulle Mendès is discovered on February 7th, 1909 in the tunnel of railroad of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer: it was supposed that it had opened the door of its coach while being believed returned in destination.

The work of Catulle Mendès, very abundant, generally fell into the lapse of memory today. He is regarded as the representative of a fine esthetism of century, using, not without preciosity, a required vocabulary and brilliance. Criticisms of the time reproached him already a certain superficiality and a rather visible manner to follow the fashion of the day. Its poetry, with the declining perfume, was very appreciated of Verlaine. He is also the author of short erotic accounts.

It is Catulle Mendès which introduced the occultist Eliphas Lévi to Victor Hugo.

Works (extracted)

Poetries

Philoméla (1863);
Hespérus (1872);
Tales epic (1872);
Poetries (1892);
new Poetries (1893).

Theater and booklets of operas

the Share of the king (1872);
Brothers in arms (1873);
Justice (1877);
the enemy Mothers (1882)
the Captain Crashes to pieces (1878);
Gwendoline (1886), booklet for the opera of Chabrier;
the Woman of Tabarin (1887);
Isoline (1888), booklet for the opera of Andre Messager;
Médée (1898);
the Queen Fiammette (1898);
the Son of the star (1904);
Scarron (1905);
ARIANE (1906) booklet for the opera of Massenet;
Glatigny (1906).

Critical works

the Legend of the contemporary Parnassus (1884);
Richard Wagner (1886);
Wagnerian Work in France ;
Report/ratio on the French poetic movement of 1867 to 1900 (1902).

Novels

Fires (2006) (Collection of News) (Stalker editor)
Life and the death of a clown (1879);
enemy Mothers (1880);
the virgin King (1881);
Zo' Har (1886);
the very naked Man (1887);
the First mistress (1894) ;
Gog (1896).

Quotation

Remainder. Do not light the lamp…

Remain. Do not light the lamp. That our yeux
Fill up for a long time of darkness, and laisse
Your brown hair to pour heavy mollesse
Their waves on our quiet kisses.

We are tired as much one that the other. The skies
Full of sun misled us. The day wounds us.
Voluptueusement let us rock our weakness
In the ocean of the dull and delicious evening.

Slow extase, surging sleep free from dream,
Funeral flow rolls and unrolls and prolongs
Your hair where my face pâme buried…

O calms evening, which hate the life and resist to him,
Which long river of lethargic peace and lapse of memory
Run in the deep hair of brown sad.

Morose Evenings , Catulle Mendès, 1876

External bonds

New: '' The eater of dream '' (1883), '' George and Nonotte '' (1883), '' the tueuse one of echo '' (1883), '' the Girl boy '' (1883), '' Of a lady which was narrowly closed by the jealousy of her husband… '' (1893); '' Of a Lady of Avignon which by her husband who was deaf was held for innocent still that… '' (1893); '' Naïs and Amymone '' (1876); '' The Woman of Tabarin '': parades (1876).

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