TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Murphy, Steve
TI  - The kettle and the scorpion, the moral of the story…
T2  - Revue Verlaine 2020, n° 18. varia
JO  - Revue Verlaine (ISSN 2426-8860), 18, 2020
DO  - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-11882-4.p.0233
SN  - 2426-8860
SP  - 233
EP  - 264
AB  - It seems that as a child, Verlaine was scalded with burning water and that he had an unexpected encounter with a scorpion. These facts are recounted in Les Hommes d’Aujourd’hui and, very differently, in his Confessions. The supposedly vivid recollections were revised and whatever their degree of referential precision, the aim was to suggest an early initiation to the status of “poète maudit”, already heading for existential heterodoxy.
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/16
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
KW  - Paul Verlaine, autobiography, suicide, toys, ambidextrous, left-handed, bisexuality
LA  - fre
UR  - https://classiques-garnier.com/revue-verlaine-2020-n-18-varia-the-kettle-and-the-scorpion-the-moral-of-the-story.html
Y2  - 2024/05/27
ER  -