Albert Giraud

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Albert Giraud
Albert Giraud

Albert Giraud (June 23, 1860 – December 26, 1929), was a Belgian poet writing in the French language. He was born Emile Albert Kayenbergh in Louvain, Belgium. He studied law at the University of Louvain. He left university without a degree and took up journalism and poetry. In 1885, Giraud became a member of La Jeune Belgique, a Belgian nationalist literary movement that met at the Café Sésino in Brussels.[1] Giraud became chief librarian at the Belgian Ministry of the Interior.

He was a Symbolist poet. His published works include Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques (1884), a poem cycle based on the commedia dell'arte figure of Pierrot, and La Guirlande des Dieux (1910). The composer Arnold Schönberg set a German language version (translated by Otto Erich Hartleben) of selections from his Pierrot Lunaire to innovative atonal music.

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[edit] Works

Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels Bergamasques (1884)
Hors du Siècle (poems written between 1885 and 1897)
Le concert dans la musée (1921)


[edit] Quotation

Coucher de soleil
Le Soleil s'est ouvert les veines
Sur un lit de nuages roux:
Son sang, par la bouche des trous,
S'éjacule en rouges fontaines.
Les rameaux convulsifs des chênes
Flagellent les horizons fous;
Le Soleil s'est ouvert les veines
Sur un lit de nuages roux:
Comme, après les hontes romaines,
Un débauché plein de dégoûts
Laissant jusqu'aux sales égouts
Saigner ses artères malsaines,
Le Soleil s'est ouvert les veines!
--- Pierrot Lunaire

[edit] References

Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire, translated and with an introduction by Gregory C. Richter, Truman State University Press, 2001.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire, translated and with an introduction by Gregory C. Richter.