Jetant son encre vers les cieux,
Suçant le sang de ce qu'il aime
Et le trouvant délicieux,
Ce monstre inhumain, c'est moi-même.
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "Le Poulpe", op. 1b no. 20 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 20, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Le Poulpe", 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from Bestiaire, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Régis Campo (b. 1968), "Le Poulpe", 2007-08 [ soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Le Bestiaire, no. 10, Éd. Henry Lemoine (piano reduction) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alain Corbellari (b. 1967), "Le Poulpe", first performed 1992 [ bass-baritone and piano ], from Le bestiaire bis, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Cornman (1924 - 2008), "Le Poulpe", 1961-1963 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire (alpha) ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "Le Poulpe", op. 17a no. 20 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 20 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The Octopus", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 4
Word count: 22
Squirting his ink at the sky,
sucking the blood of what he loves
and finding it delicious...
that inhuman monster is me.