Bøger af Victor Segalen

Works by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen, including a previously untranslated essay, a novel, and a libretto.Victor Segalen (1878-1919) had one of France's most curious literary careers, applying his imagination to musicology, ethnography, exploration, medicine, synesthetics, Chinese history, and the occult. This collection gathers together his previously untranslated essay "Synesthestics and the Symbolist School” and his novel In A Sound World, a work of fantasy concerning an inventor lost in his own immersive harmonic space. Segalen's medical training (he had a career as a ship's doctor) inspired an interest in the link between the prevailing Symbolism of the time and synesthesia, the condition whereby one sense affects the perception of another.This edition also includes an essay by the musician and cultural historian David Toop that explores the historical context of Segalen's ideas. Also included is Segalen's libretto for Orpheus Rex, a collaboration with the composer Claude Debussy, which he would use as an opportunity for further explorations of his synesthetic concepts. This book makes available all three texts for the first time in English.

A collection of Victor Segalen's essays on painting and art criticism.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

"Les Immémoriaux" de Victor Segalen. Poète, médecin de marine, ethnographe et archéologue français (1878-1919).

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Ce roman est bâti comme un journal intime. Il débute le 30 mars 1911 et s'achève le 22 novembre de la même année. L'action se déroule en Chine dans les derniers mois de la dynastie Qing. Le narrateur, en poste à Pékin, recrute un professeur de mandchou, René Leys, fils d'un épicier belge, qui s'avère un bien curieux personnage: il prétend avoir ses entrées au sein de la Cité interdite. Est-il si proche du pouvoir qu'il le laisse croire ?... - Le roman baigne dans une atmosphère mystérieuse.

Donc, ce qui sera lu dans ce livre n'est pas le texte Orphique d'un roi que Debussy aurait intrônisé. L'autre texte, qui est à lui, demeure enterré dans une tombe, la sienne. Mais ceci, en noir et blanc sur du papier blanc, n'offre que la recension renonçant, dans un drame de musique essentielle, à tout ce qui serait musique coupable des mots. J'étouffe l'orchestre verbal avec ses mille timbres, je le brûle en holocauste de bois sec à la mémoire du grand musicien mort, et mon Ami.

First English critical edition of a bilingual masterpiece with facsimile and facing-page translation

The "Other" - source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonised and romanticised. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. This title encompasses Segalen's attempts to define "true Exoticism."

L'observation médicale chez les écrivains naturalistes: thèse pour le doctorat en médecine, présentée et soutenue publiquement le 29 janv. 1902 / par Victor-Joseph-Ambroise-Désiré Ségalen, ...Date de l'édition originale: 1902Sujet de l'ouvrage: Naturalisme (mouvement littéraire)Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF.HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande.Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables.Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique.Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

A masterpiece that effortlessly takes its place among the classics of travel writingVictor Segalen (1878-1919) was a French doctor, archaeologist, explorer and author who traveled extensively in Polynesia and China. Journey to the Land of the Real (Equipée in French) is the summation of the author's life as traveler and poet, and a summation that is all the more surprising since he could know nothing of his imminent and mysterious death: Journey appeared posthumously. In part, it recounts an actual expedition through China to the borders of Tibet in the last years of the First World War; there are real adventures in a country now lost to time, but more mysterious events too. Segalen describes this work as lying "between what one dreams of and what one does, between what one desires and what one obtains; between the summit conquered by a metaphor and the altitude reached on foot by exertion; between the winged dance of the idea and the tough march along the road." Here is a masterpiece that effortlessly takes its place among the classics of travel writing precisely because it is so much more than that; among its brief chapters are consummate prose poems that reveal a lucid, eloquent and very likable author at the height of his powers.