Les Mains Jointes Et Autres Poemes 1905-1923

by Mauriac, Franois

• ISBN13: 9780859897433
• ISBN10: 0859897435
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Exeter Pr

Summary

Les Mains jointes (1909) was the collection of poetry that launched the long career of Nobel Prize-winning author Francois Mauriac (1885-1970). This critical edition provides the first ever overview of the volume's complex textual history (spanning four decades). Drawing on Mauriac's unpublished cahiers de jeunesse, Paul Cooke challenges the author's claim that the majority of the poems in the collection were written while he was still at school. A selection of additional poems published between 1905 and 1923 (some of which have remained hidden for nearly a century) allows the reader to situate Les Mains jointes in relation to Mauriac's wider verse output. In his Introduction, Cooke both explores the genesis and history of Les Mains jointes and offers some analysis of Mauriac's style as a poet. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Sigles et abreviations	vii
Introduction	ix
Remerciements	xxix
LES MAINS JOINTES
L'Ecolier
L'Ecolier	5	(1)
L'Ame ancienne	6	(1)
Ami d'enfance	7	(1)
Grandes vacances	8	(3)
Vacances de Paques	11	(4)
L'Etudiant
Depart	15	(1)
[L'Etudiant] I	15	(1)
[L'Etudiant] II	16	(1)
[L'Etudiant] III	16	(1)
[L'Etudiant] IV	17	(1)
Evocation	17	(4)
L'Ami
[L'Ami] I	21	(1)
[L'Ami] II	21	(1)
A un apotre	22	(1)
Le Vaincu	23	(1)
Souvenir	24	(1)
Le Desert	25	(1)
Trahison	26	(1)
Veillees	27	(1)
Chanson	28	(1)
Contrition	29	(1)
Le Dernier Soir	29	(4)
Une Retraite
Une retraite	33	(1)
Les Livres	33	(1)
La Messe	34	(1)
L'Examen particulier	34	(2)
Le Sens de la vie	36	(1)
Les Sables	37	(1)
Le Desastre	38	(1)
La Pecheresse	39	(1)
Faiblesse	40	(1)
L'Immuable	40	(1)
L'Inconnu	41	(1)
L'Illusion	42	(1)
La Peine	43	(1)
A la memoire de R. L.	43	(4)
AUTRES POEMES (1905--1923)
[Confidences]	47	(3)
Intellectuels	50	(1)
L'Abandon	51	(1)
La Maddalena de G. Bellini	52	(1)
Nocturne	53	(1)
Elegie	54	(4)
Les Morts du printemps	58	(5)
Poemes [1921]
[I]	63	(1)
[II]	64	(1)
[III]	64	(1)
[IV]	65	(1)
Cybele possedee	66	(1)
Fils du ciel	67	(1)
Ganymede	68	(1)
Delectation	68	(5)
DOSSIER
Notes et variantes	73	(37)
Bibliographie	110