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Dédicace à personne Pour recueillir, comme au futur. Pour perdre dans le passé. Pour attendre, pour piétiner, pour se morfondre, comme au présent. Une suite de jours dispersée, déchirée, entre l'insomnie et le songe. Une vie qui n'appartient à personne, pas même à moi. Une route qui ne conduit nulle part ailleurs qu'en ce point où tout se dissipe et disparaît. (Est-ce la récompense ?) Au vertige vécu. À l'immobile. Au retour sans fin. À la suite irrémédiable, peinte aux couleurs de l'espoir. Aux portes fermées de la sagesse. (Elles tremblent, elles vont céder.) A la conscience maintenue, arc-boutée contre le souffle de l'abîme. Puissent la suie, la poussière, le sang des heures, la colère du monde, l'oubli de tout - ne pas ternir le miroir ! À toutes les personnes que nous sommes et ne serons plus. À tous les temps du verbe. Jean Tardieu.
80 pages, Paperback
Published February 23, 1995
About the author
Jean Tardieu
105 books8 followersHe earned a degree in literature and worked for a publishing house. He published several poetry collections in the 1930s before starting to write for the stage. After World War Two, Tardieu entered the world of radio and worked his way to head of dramatic programming and then director of programs at France-Music. The quality and success of French National Public Radio after World War Two has been attributed largely to Jean Tardieu.
Tardieu's works mingled with the ideals of the French New Theatre and used comedy to pick apart more traditional theatre. He is often associated with the Theatre of the Absurd.
Some of his work has been translated into English, including:
The Underground Lovers, and other experimental plays
Going...Going...Gone! The Client Dies Twice: Three Plays (Black Apollo Press, ISBN 1-900355-21-3)
The River Underground: Selected Poems & Prose
Some of his work is present in Julio Cortázar's 1963 novel Rayuela (Hopscotch). Tardieu's work is included in Chapter 152, entitled "The Abuse of Consciousness".
The French composer Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six, who was a harp student of Tardieu's mother Caroline Luigini and who first met Tardieu as a child, set several of Tardieu's poems to music notably in the "Concerto des Vaines Paroles" for Baritone Voice, Piano and Orchestra and in the cycle "Trois Poèmes de Jean Tardieu" for Voice and Piano.
He was a great friend of Jean René Bazaine who turned his poem L'Ombre, la branche into a fine illustrated art book.( Maeght Éditeur, 1977: 150 ex. with 16 colored litho's, 50 ex. with three added litho's.)
Tardieu's works mingled with the ideals of the French New Theatre and used comedy to pick apart more traditional theatre. He is often associated with the Theatre of the Absurd.
Some of his work has been translated into English, including:
The Underground Lovers, and other experimental plays
Going...Going...Gone! The Client Dies Twice: Three Plays (Black Apollo Press, ISBN 1-900355-21-3)
The River Underground: Selected Poems & Prose
Some of his work is present in Julio Cortázar's 1963 novel Rayuela (Hopscotch). Tardieu's work is included in Chapter 152, entitled "The Abuse of Consciousness".
The French composer Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six, who was a harp student of Tardieu's mother Caroline Luigini and who first met Tardieu as a child, set several of Tardieu's poems to music notably in the "Concerto des Vaines Paroles" for Baritone Voice, Piano and Orchestra and in the cycle "Trois Poèmes de Jean Tardieu" for Voice and Piano.
He was a great friend of Jean René Bazaine who turned his poem L'Ombre, la branche into a fine illustrated art book.( Maeght Éditeur, 1977: 150 ex. with 16 colored litho's, 50 ex. with three added litho's.)
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