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风
夜啊，那祭品，该把它送到何处？还有那赞扬，应该吐露吗？……我们高举双臂。在臂端，在如一窝雌鸟羽翼的手掌，托着那颗忧郁的人心，那里面有渴望，有热情，还有那么多未曾显露的爱情……
夜啊，请在空无人迹的院落，在荒僻的桥拱下，在圣地的废墟和古老白蚁冢的碎屑中，一如在猛兽徘徊的青铜色石板上，谛听没有居所的灵魂那至高无上的豪迈步伐。
夜啊，请在空无人迹的院落，在荒僻的桥拱下，在圣地的废墟和古老白蚁冢的碎屑中，一如在猛兽徘徊的青铜色石板上，谛听没有居所的灵魂那至高无上的豪迈步伐。
- GenresPoetry
160 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1946
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About the author
Saint-John Perse
87 books83 followersWorks of French poet and diplomat Alexis Saint-Léger Léger under pen name of Saint-John Perse include
Anabase
(1924) and
Chronique
(1960); he won the Nobel Prize of 1960 for literature.
He came from an old Bourguignon family, which settled in the Antilles in the 17th century and returned at the end of the 19th century.
Perse studied law at Bordeaux and, after private studies in political science, went into the service in 1914. A brilliant career ensued. He served first in the embassy at Peking. People published his work chiefly under the pseudonyms. After various reflections on the impressions of his childhood, he wrote in China. An epic puzzled many critics and gave rise to the suggestion that an Asian ably understands it better than by a westerner.
He later in the foreign office held top positions under Aristide Briand as its administrative head.
He left for the United States in 1940, and the regime at Vichy deprived him of his citizenship and possessions. From 1941 to 1945, he served as adviser to the Library of Congress. After the war, he resumed not his career and in 1950 retired officially with the title of ambassador. He made the United States his permanent residence.
After he settled in the United States, he wrote much of his work. Exil (Exile) (1942) fully masters man, merge, imagery, and diction.
* Poème l'Etrangère (Poem to a Foreign Lady), 1943;
* Pluies (Rains) (1943);
* Neiges (Snows) (1944);
* Vents (Winds) (1946) of war and peace blow well within and outside man;
* In Amers (Seamarks) (1957), the sea redounds as an image of the timelessness of man.
His abstract epic followed.
People awarded him "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time."
He came from an old Bourguignon family, which settled in the Antilles in the 17th century and returned at the end of the 19th century.
Perse studied law at Bordeaux and, after private studies in political science, went into the service in 1914. A brilliant career ensued. He served first in the embassy at Peking. People published his work chiefly under the pseudonyms. After various reflections on the impressions of his childhood, he wrote in China. An epic puzzled many critics and gave rise to the suggestion that an Asian ably understands it better than by a westerner.
He later in the foreign office held top positions under Aristide Briand as its administrative head.
He left for the United States in 1940, and the regime at Vichy deprived him of his citizenship and possessions. From 1941 to 1945, he served as adviser to the Library of Congress. After the war, he resumed not his career and in 1950 retired officially with the title of ambassador. He made the United States his permanent residence.
After he settled in the United States, he wrote much of his work. Exil (Exile) (1942) fully masters man, merge, imagery, and diction.
* Poème l'Etrangère (Poem to a Foreign Lady), 1943;
* Pluies (Rains) (1943);
* Neiges (Snows) (1944);
* Vents (Winds) (1946) of war and peace blow well within and outside man;
* In Amers (Seamarks) (1957), the sea redounds as an image of the timelessness of man.
His abstract epic followed.
People awarded him "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time."
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June 1, 2021
Vents are a magnificent collection of poems by Saint-John Perse.
His texts, if they may seem hermetic at first glance, are so beautiful that they transport the reader to sensations of incomparable strength and intensity.
To read these texts is to find oneself in distant lands in the presence of half-real, half-fantastic characters.
His texts, if they may seem hermetic at first glance, are so beautiful that they transport the reader to sensations of incomparable strength and intensity.
To read these texts is to find oneself in distant lands in the presence of half-real, half-fantastic characters.
May 25, 2025
j'accroche pas vraiment
August 1, 2024
ohlalala c'est bon on a compris que tu connais plein de mots compliqués
March 28, 2022
You never really know where life will take you. You might have an idea, but life in the end has its plans for you. Saint-John Perse's prose poem Winds is a symbol of this uncontrollable life and the howling winds it releases upon us. We're like people on a boat, hoping the winds would be gentle with us. In this poem, there is a grand evocative gesture to our life on Earth, all those who passed by it, all those who are, and all those who will pass. It is a good example of prose poetry and gets my recommendation.
October 1, 2020
Très beau. Magnifique ouvrage qui nous ouvre à notre créolité, notre rapport "terremer" .
December 8, 2022
j ai pas compris grand chose pour etre honnete mais je mets 3 etoiles par respect ( en vrai j ai un peu compris mais la verite il debite trop
October 25, 2024
Trop lyrique et hermétique pour moi, j'ai trop de difficultés à retrouver l'idée derrière les descriptions
February 2, 2012
Chouette épopée où le poète se fait le guide de l'humanité entière qui part en quête d'un idéal absolu, vers l'ouest. Poésie de la célébration de la vie et de la puissance poétique, j'ai surtout aimé la recherche poussée du langage qu'il a effectué, qui provoque bien le choc des images "à la surréaliste", tout en étant très personnel (on retrouve ses passions de la minéralogie, botanique...) Langage qui peut bien souvent dérouter tout de même pour sa complexité lexicale.
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