Publication

1991 - Gallimard, [Paris]

Language

French

Word Count

23,500 words, Guess

Page Count

94 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPQ2673.A7813 T47 1991

Description

"The epigraph, echoing Saba's "ancient" spring and, intertextually, Eliot's "cruel" April and Valéry's "maledetta primavera", sets the solemn yet celebratory tone of Jean-Claude Masson 's song to youth, his ode to first life experiences. From the perspective of experience, of one who has learned to "merit exile" and accept the necessary and inevitable banishment from a state of simplicity and innocence, the poet undertakes a poetic and nostalgic voyage back to a lost garden." (Cf. : Sergio Villani, *World Literature Today*, Summer, 1992).

Subjects

Topics

poet's youthBelgian poetJean-Claude MassonLe Testament du printemps

Places

LiègesWallonie

Times

Youth of a poet

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