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Tristan Corbière

Known For
Crew

Known Credits
1

Gender
Male

Birthday
July 18, 1845 (180 years old)

Place of Birth
Morlaix, Finistère, France

Tristan Corbière

Biography

Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29. He was a French poet, close to Symbolism, and a figure of the "cursed poet".

He is the author of a single collection of poetry Les Amours Jaunes, and of a few prose pieces. He led a mostly marginal and miserable life, nourished by two major failures due to his bone disease and his "ugliness" which he enjoyed accusing: the first is his sentimental life (he only loved one woman, called "Marcelle" in his work), and the second being his passion for the sea (he dreamt of becoming a sailor, like his father, Édouard Corbière). His poetry carries these two great wounds which led him to adopt a very cynical and incisive style, towards himself as much towards the life and world around him.

Known For

Writing

1978Abrasions...Writer
1958The Yellow Loves...Author

Crew

1973The Iron Rose...Poem

Acting

2022Romanin, l'autre Jean Moulinas