Variations on chinese themes and the arrangement of Judith Gautier’s Livre de Jade
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5902/2176148587401Keywords:
Judith Gautier, Book of Jade, Prose poem, Theme, VariationAbstract
The musical analogy of the first versions of Livre de Jade (1867), Variations sur des thèmes chinois, serves as a foundation in this article to offer hypotheses on the book’s structure. By going through Judith Gautier's reformulations towards condensation, the aim would be to detect not a process of stabilization, but the dynamics of a writing made up of modulations, suggestions and inconstancy. Under the influence of a conception of beauty made up in between the eternal and the transitory, the former is evoked from the ancestral memory of Chinese poetry and materializes by recovering leitmotive, making her book a constant exercise in meditation and memory.Downloads
References
ÁLVARES, María V. H. Judith Gautier, la escritora. In: Las memorias de un elefante blanco. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2018. p. 13-73.
BARTHES, Roland. S/Z. Lisboa: Edições 70, 1980.
BAUDELAIRE, Charles. As flores do mal. São Paulo: Penguin, 2019.
BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Richard Wagner e Tannhäuser em Paris. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica, 2013.
BERNARD, Suzanne. Le Poème en prose de Baudelaire jusqu'à nos jours. Paris: Nizet, 1959.
BROWN, Calvin S. Music and literature: a comparison of the arts. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1963.
CUPERS, Jean-Louis & WEISSTEIN, Ulrich. Musico-Poetics in Perspective: Calvin S. Brown in Memoriam. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.
DE SOUSA, Elisabete M. Richard Wagner: leitmotiv e música dramática. Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2010, vol. 18, no 36, p. 25-44.
FURNESS, Raymond. Wagner and literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1982.
GAUTIER, Judith. Le Livre de Jade. Paris: A. Lemerre, 1867
GAUTIER, Judith. Le Livre de Jade: Poésies traduits du Chinois. Paris: A. Lemerre, 1902.
GAUTIER, Judith. Le second rang du collier. Paris: F. Juven, 1909.
GOODMAN, Nelson., & ELGIN, Catherine. Z. Variations on Variation — or Picasso back to Bach. In: Reconceptions in philosophy and other arts and sciences. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1988. p. 66-81.
HANNOOSH, Michele. Peinture et correspondances dans l'œuvre de Baudelaire. Cahiers de l’Association internationale des études françaises, 2010, n°62. p. 207-221.
HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl. Às avessas. São Paulo: Penguin, 2011.
JENNY, Laurent. Variation et mimèsis. Romanic Review, 2002, vol. 93, no 1-2, p. 69-79.
JESSOME-NANCE, Barbara E. The passionate pursuit of beauty : The literary career of Judith Gautier (1845-1917). Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1988.
LOCKSPEISER, Edward. Wagner, Judith Gautier and Renoir. In: Music and Painting: a study in comparative ideas from Turner to Schoenberg. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 153-165.
MENDÈS, Judith [Gautier]. Lohengrin, opéra en trois actes, de Richard Wagner. La Presse. 08 septembre, 1868. p. 03.
MENDÈS, Judith [Gautier]. Le Dragon Impérial. Paris: A. Lemerre, 1869.
PIRES, Antônio Donizeti. Pela volúpia do vago: O Simbolismo. O poema em prosa nas literaturas portuguesa e brasileira. Tese. Araraquara: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, 2002.
POITEAU, Émile. Quelques écrivains de ce temps. Paris: B. Grasset, 1913.
WALTER, Judith [Gautier]. Soirs de lune: petits poèmes chinois. Revue du XIXe Siècle. Tome I. - 1er Avril. Paris: Bureaux de la revue du xixe siècle, 1866. p. 338-340.
WALTER, Judith [Gautier]. MIRANDA, José Américo, & SANTOS, Gilson. Le livre de jade/O livro de jade. Machadiana Eletrônica, 2023, vol. 7, no 13.
WANG, Yu. La Réception des anthologies de poésie chinoise classique par les poètes français (1735-2008). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017.
YOSHIKAWA, Junko. Le Livre de Jade de Judith Gautier, traduction de poèmes chinois: le rapport avec sa création du poème en prose. Études de langue et littérature françaises, 2010, vol. 96, p. 15-29.
YU, Pauline. “Your Alabaster in This Porcelain”: Judith Gautier's Le livre de jade. pmla, 2007, vol. 122, no 2, p. 464-482.
YU, Pauline. Judith Gautier and the Invention of Chinese Poetry. In: Reading Medieval Chinese Poetry. Leyde: Brill, 2015. p. 251-288.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Letras
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Ficam concedidos a Letras todos os direitos autorais referentes aos trabalhos publicados. Os originais não devem ter sido publicados ou submetidos simultaneamente a outro periódico e não serão devolvidos. Em virtude de aparecerem nesta revista de acesso público, os artigos são de uso gratuito, com atribuições próprias, em aplicações educacionais e não comerciais.
