Jacques Villon | Unheilbares Leben

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by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard

Translation © by Julia Henning

Irrémédiable vie

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER LIT

Irrémédiable vie
Vie à toujours chérir

En dépit des fléaux
Et des morales basses
En dépit des étoiles fausses
Et des cendres envahissantes

En dépit des fièvres grinçantes
Des crimes à hauteur du ventre
Des seins taris des fronts idiots
En dépit des soleils mortels

En dépit des dieux morts
En dépit des mensonges
L'aube l'horizon l'eau
L'oiseau l'homme l'amour

L'homme léger et bon
Adoucissant la terre
Éclaircissant les bois
Illuminant la pierre

Et la rose nocturne
Et le sang de la foule.

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Text Authorship:

by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, no title, written 1948, appears in Voir. Poemes, Peintures, Dessins, in 6. De la lumière et du pain, no. 5, Genève, Éd. des Trois Collines, first published 1948 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Jacques Villon", FP 161 no. 7 (1956), published 1957 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Travail du peintre, no. 7, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Peter Low) , "Jacques Villon", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Jacques Villon", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Žakas Vijonas", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Jacques Villon

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Unheilbares Leben
Immer geschätztes Leben

Trotz Geißeln
Und niederer Moral
Trotz falscher Sterne
Und eindringender Schlacken

Trotz zermürbender Fieber
Tiefer Verstrickung in Verbrechen
Vertrockneter Brüste dummer Gesichter
Trotz sterblicher Sonnen

Trotz toter Götter
Trotz Lügen
Morgendämmerung Horizont Wasser
Vogel Mensch Liebe

Mensch leichtherzig und gut
Erweicht die Erde
Erhellt die Wälder
Erleuchtet den Stein

Und die nächtliche Rose
Und das Blut der Menge.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, no title, written 1948, appears in Voir. Poemes, Peintures, Dessins, in 6. De la lumière et du pain, no. 5, Genève, Éd. des Trois Collines, first published 1948
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This text was added to the website: 2019-12-05
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Word count: 63