Romances sans paroles

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[Ebook reader of Romances without words, by Paul Verlaine]Published in 1874, Romances sans mots marks a radical turning point in the work of Paul Verlaine and in the history of French poetry.This “little book”, which he wrote during his tumultuous affair with Rimbaud and which he presents as a “series of vague impressions”, is haunted by the temptation of silence.
What can speech do in the face of reality, whose meaning is elusive?
How to express the feelings of an erratic and opaque self to itself?
And above all, how can we say them otherwise, after Romanticism, which exalted them, and Parnassus, which distrusted them?
By seizing an outdated genre, romance, Verlaine reinvents beauty from the banal, reconnects with orality at the heart of writing, and makes song the utopia of poetic speech.(Audio book)