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Paul Claudel and the death of Palinurus Virgil, Aeneid, V, 835–861

  • Publication type: Journal article
  • Journal: Bulletin de la Société Paul Claudel
    2022 – 1, n° 236
    . Les philosophes inspirés par Claudel
  • Author: Poisson-Gueffier (Jean-François)
  • Abstract: The nocturnal episode of the death of Palinurus, in the fifth song of the Aeneid, inspires in Claudel a fascination of which the interviews and prose texts bear the trace. This page is at the origin of a poetic "ecstasy" of which the poet retains the power of evocation only for himself; it does not constitute a principle of writing or rewriting but remains forever integrated, preserved in an immortal verse which concentrates its essence, aequatos spirant aurae, datur hora quieti.
  • Pages: 69 to 75
  • Journal: Bulletin of the Paul Claudel Society
  • CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
  • EAN: 9782406130154
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-13015-4
  • ISSN: 2262-3108
  • DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13015-4.p.0069
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 04-06-2022
  • Periodicity: Four-monthly
  • Language: French
  • Keyword: Virgil, Palinure, Improvised Memoirs, musicality, creative imagination