Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009

28.11.2016 - St. J. Perse2 and Exile etc...


dali48 and writing books and photographing "flora and fauna" etc...
 

09.10.2009 - Interpretation of dali48    

From 1916 to 1921 he worked in China - On his vacations Perse sailed the South Seas - and travelled in the Gobi Desert...

His strongly rhythmical poems, which celebrate his lost Antillean paradise - drew the attention of André Gide among others...

His odysseian feelings can be found from the work of other diplomat-writers, among them Pablo Neruda and George Seferis...

In 1933 Perse was appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1940, after the Germans had occupied France, he was dismissed from office by the collaborationist Vichy government - Perse first fled to England and then to the United States - As a revenge the Nazi secret police looted his Paris apartment - where they seized and destroyed several manuscripts, representing 15 years of work...

In the new country Perse worked at the Library of Congress - He had a privately funded position as a consultant on French poetry - During these years of exile Perse resumed writing poetry. His works darkened in tone - exile was for him a man's ever-present condition - This theme with the images of barren sand and desolate beaches - he examined in Exile (1942), dedicated to A. Mac Leish, the Librarian of Congress - It has been described as one of the greatest works emerging from World War II... (St. J. Perse, P.A.C.)


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