Jean Lorrain (9 August 1855 in Fécamp, Seine-Maritime – 30 June 1906), born Paul Alexandre Martin Duval, was a French poet and novelist of the Symbolist school.
French poet and novelist
Jean Lorrain
Born
Paul Alexandre Martin Duval (1855-08-09)9 August 1855 Fécamp, France
Cimetière de Fécamp (Fécamp), Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie Region, France
Occupation
Poet and novelist
Nationality
French
Notable works
Monsieur de Phocas Princesses d'ivoire et d'ivresse Histoires de masques
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Lorrain was a dedicated disciple of dandyism and spent much of his time amongst the fashionable artistic circles in France, particularly in the cafés and bars of Montmartre.[1]
He contributed to the satirical weekly Le Courrier français, and wrote a number of collections of verse, including La forêt bleue (1883) and L'ombre ardente, (1897). He is also remembered for his Decadent novels and short stories, such as Monsieur de Phocas (1901), Monsieur de Bougrelon (1897), and Histoires des masques (1900), as well as for one of his best stories, Sonyeuse, which he linked to portraits exhibited by Antonio de La Gándara in 1893. He also wrote the libretto to Pierre de Bréville's opera Éros vainqueur (1910).
Manuel Orazi Illustrated his Novella Ma petite ville in 1989.[2]
Lorrain was openly gay, often citing ancient Greece as noble heritage for homosexuality[3] and became colloquially known as 'The Ambassador from Sodom'.[4]
Due to tubercular symptoms, he started using morphine, and then moved on to drinking ether, a habit he shared with Guy de Maupassant. Under the influence of ether Lorrain wrote several horror stories, but eventually the substance gave him stomach ulcers and health problems.[5]
La Maison Philibert (1904), adaptée par José de Bérys, Noré Brunel et Georges Normandy et représentée sur la scène du Moulin de la Chanson à Paris en février 1932.
Madame Monpalou (1906)
Ellen (1906)
Le Tétreau Bosc (1906), Le Livre Moderne Illustré n° 354 (1941)
Voyages, (2009), Les Promeneurs solitaires, préface de Sébastien Paré.
Translations into English
Monsieur de Phocas, Dedalus Books (1994) ISBN978-1873982150
Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker (translation of Sensations et souvenirs, with additional material, by Brian Stableford), Snuggly Books (2016) ISBN978-1-943813-02-5
The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies (includes translations of Sonyeuse, La Mandragore, La Princesse sous verre, with additional material, by Brian Stableford), Snuggly Books (2016) ISBN978-1-943813-09-4
Monsieur de Bougrelon, translated and with an afterword by Eva Richter, Spurl Editions (2016) ISBN978-1-943679-03-4
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