by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
Le Lézard
Language: French (Français)
[Fils spontané]1 de la pierre fendue où je m’appuie, il me grimpe sur l’épaule. Il a cru que je continuais le mur parce que je reste immobile et que j’ai un [paletot]2 couleur de muraille. Ça flatte tout de même. Le Mur. — Je ne sais quel frisson me passe sur le dos. Le Lézard. — C’est moi.
I. Aboulker sets stanza 1
Confirmed with Jules Renard, Histoires naturelles, Paris, Modern-Bibliothèque, 1894, page 61. Note: this is a prose text. Line breaks have been added arbitrarily.
1 Aboulker: "Le lézard est le fils"2 Aboulker: "manteau"
Text Authorship:
- by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910) [author's text checked 1 time 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 Isabelle Aboulker (b. 1938), "Le Lézard", published 2011, stanza 1 [ medium voice and piano ], from Petites histoires naturelles, no. 17, Paris, Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text checked 1 time]
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