Title : The Mourning of Primroses - Francis Jammes - book

Summary :

The work that best represents Francis Jammes is undoubtedly Le Deuil des primevères, because it is situated at the point in his life where he was able to grant to prosaism and lyricism the fair share that belongs to each, without each harming or stifling the other. The language is well-off. It has the ease at ground level of the satisfied impression with the things observed, and the momentum of the image that carries the confidence to the level of an inner call. We feel there what breathes and what is inspired. A book by a young man capable of expressing all that he feels since his childhood and all that he will feel until his old age, it contains, one could say, the very essence of Jammism, this perfume like no other that one absorbs without realizing it, made of the past, the countryside, exoticism and religiosity. All the bells are combined: those of churches dressed in leaves, those of transhumant sheep, those of transoceanic boats, those of tropical flowers. The ringing resounds in the heart of the poet, also transported from one side of the world to the other. He has not ceased to be, in his own words, a faun, but this faun does not turn his back on a certain Christian who, caring little for dogmas, claims to be Francis of Assisi and addresses himself without false shame to a very good-natured God to confide his carnal or spiritual worries to him." Robert Mallet.

• EAN: 9782070301447
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