New Germain

German New , born and died in Pourrières in the VAr (August 2nd 1851 - April 4th 1920), is a French poet.

Biography

After studies with the small seminar of Aix, where he thinks of embracing the priesthood, and a year of teaching to the college of Marseilles in 1871-1872, Germain settles with Paris with the autumn 1872. It publishes its first poem, Sonnet of summer , in the Rebirth artistic and literary , re-examined Emile Blémont and become acquainted with Mallarmé, Jean Richepin and the “Alive ones” (Ponchon…) who meet in the Tabourey coffee. He attends also the zutists, becomes acquainted with Charles Cros with which he collaborates in the drafting of the realistic Dixains which turn in derision the Parnassiens. He discovers in the zutic Album the poems left by Rimbaud and Verlaine, which left the capital since July 1872.

At the end of 1873, it meets Arthur Rimbaud with the Tabourey coffee and, in March 1874, they leave together in England to settle with London, to the 178 Stamford Street. New Rimbaud assistance with the copy of the Illuminations but returns alone to Paris in June of the same year. He travels in Belgium and Holland. In 1875, in Brussels, it receives from Verlaine the manuscript of the Illuminations that Rimbaud, crossed with Stuttgart, again addressed in order to make it publish. New goes back to London where it becomes acquainted with Verlaine with which there will remain a long time friendly.

In 1878, it enters to the ministry for the State education, collaborates in the Gaulois and the Figaro , under the pseudonym of Jean de Noves , before taking again voyages into 1883 which will lead it in particular to Beirut. Become professor of drawing to the Bourgoin college in the Isere, then with the college Jeanson de Sailly, in Paris, it is struck, in full course, of a crisis of madness Mystique in 1891. It must be interned at the hospital Bicêtre from where it leaves after a few months enfermement. It passes through several mystical crises close to alienation and undertakes a life of beggar and pilgrim, taking as a starting point holy Benoît Labre. After years of wandering, including two pilgrimages with Rome and to Saint-Jacob de Compostelle, it returns in its native village in 1911 dies there of a fast too prolonged in 1920, between the Good Friday and Easter. Its poetries will be primarily published after its death, Nouveau there being opposed of alive sound, going as far as announcing a lawsuit during the publication of its collection to like , the first version of its Doctrine of the Love .

It had a great influence on the Surréalistes and Aragon considered it “not a minor poet but a large poet. Not an epigone of Rimbaud: its equal”

History of the Poison lost

In 1895, Verlaine publishes the Complete Œuvres of Arthur Rimbaud in which it integrates the poem Poison lost . It is of setting currently to allot the composition of the sonnet to the feather of Germain Nouveau. This point of view, which is not based on any reality, is all the more debatable as Poison lost conceals, in the fitting of its rhymes, a certain number of weaknesses that one forever found at Nouveau.

Works

Poetic works

The essence of its production was published only after its death. The editors divide it into:

First towards (1872 - 1878)
Dixains realistic
Parisian Notes
Doctrines of the love
Sonnets of Lebanon
Valentines
Ave Last Husbands Stella
towards (1885 - 1918)

Recent editions

complete Works (united with those of Lautréamont) (the Pleiad, ISBN 2070103048)
Doctrines of the Love, Valentines, Dixains realistic, Sonnets of Lebanon (Poetry/Gallimard, ISBN 207032205X)
love of the love - Choice and presentation of Jacques Brenner (1992 - Editions Orphée/the Difference, ISBN 2-7291-0767-3)

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