Pierre Jean Jouve

Paulina Pandolfini. Née à Milan le 14 juin 1849. Fille cadette de Mario Giuseppe Pandolfini et de Lucia Carolina son épouse. Célibataire sans profession. A séjourné comme novice dans le couvent de la Visitation à Mantoue de 1877 à 1879. A tué à Florence, le 28 août 1880, son amant le comte Michele Cantarini. Condamnée par jugement de la Cour de Florence en date du 12 avril 1881, à vingt-cinq années d'emprisonnement. A purgé sa peine dans la prison judiciaire de Turin jusqu'au 15 juin 1891, date à laquelle elle fut graciée.

Paulina 1880

selected poems of Pierre Jean Jouve

Despair has wings

William Shakespeare

G. Wilson Knight

Liliane Campos

Macbeth

Paulina 1880, published in 1925, strikingly prefigures the French "new wave" in fiction. In Pierre Jean Jouve's first novel, Paulina - said to be the most beautiful woman in Milan - enters a passionate affair with a married man. Her love for Count Michele Cantarini is all-consuming, yet Paulina is plagued by its impurity in the eyes of her family, of society, of God. The death of her father, and the subsequent death of the Count's wife, send Paulina into an abyss from which neither her love for Michele nor her faith in God can rescue her.

Poésie V-VI (1939-1947) La vierge de Paris. Hymne

Pierre Jean Jouve's novels Hecate and Vagadu trace the carnal and emotional liaisons of Catherine Crachat, a Parisian actress. Vagadu continues the saga of Catherine Crachat begun in Hecate. Having returned to Paris after a sojourn in Vienna that has been fraught with emotional entanglements and the taint of death, Catherine seeks new relationships that will give her life meaning, but she finds that no one is who he or she appears to be. In an emotional tumult, events - both real and imagined - spiral out of her control, and Catherine must reconcile herself to a past in which love and death, debasement and the search for divinity, merge and divide in haunting, kaleidoscopic ways.

The Adventures of Catherine Crachat II

Vagadu

After his marriage to a psychiatrist nine years his senior, Jouve's work, once marked by the great Christian mystics, became grounded in the Freudian unconscious, site of the conflict between Eros and Thanatos. Hélène is the story of a sixteen-year-old boy's passion for an older woman. Originally published in 1934, it is considered the high point of Jouve's prose career.

Pierre Jean Jouve

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