Élégies de Chu:

by Qu Yuan

Élégies de Chu est le premier recueil non anonyme de la littérature chinoise. Pour la première fois, un poète chinois exprime ses sentiments, et notamment la douleur liée à l'exil, à un amour déçu, en ne dissimulant rien de ses multiples états d'âme. L'émouvante authenticité du poète et sa capacité à inventer des formes nouvelles font de ce recueil une oeuvre fondatrice de la poésie chinoise et un modèle pour de très nombreux auteurs, jusqu'à nos jours. L'ouvrage se compose des trois oeuvres majeures du Chu ci : Lisao, Jiuge et Yuanyou.

160 pages, Pocket Book

Published October 19, 2023

About the author

This is a Chinese name. The family name is Qu.

Qu Yuan (Chinese: 屈原; 343–278 BC) was a Chinese poet and minister who lived during the Warring States period of ancient China. He is known for his contributions to classical poetry and verses, especially through the poems of the Chu Ci anthology (also known as The Songs of the South or Songs of Chu): a volume of poems attributed to or considered to be inspired by his verse writing. Together with the Shi Jing, the Chu Ci is one of the two great collections of ancient Chinese verse. He is also remembered as the supposed origin of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Historical details about Qu Yuan's life are few, and his authorship of many Chu Ci poems have been questioned at length. However, he is widely accepted to have written Li Sao, the most well-known of the Chu Ci poems.