Tristan Corbière and the interstice imagery

Abstract

As a representative of the aesthetic modernity arisen in the end of the nineteenth century, the corbierian work entitled Les amours jaunes shows relations with the current aesthetics of the time, especially with Decadentism and Symbolism, and it also assimilates the principles prescribed by Charles Baudelaire whose importance to the modern lyric is well- known for one not to relate it with the poetics of Tristan Corbière. This article aims to analyze the imagery used by the poet, showing some nihilism in relation to the literary tradition and a consequent search for a renewal of the artistic forms, resulting in motifs of which the theme condenses the interstices of the modern subject’s lyrical identity.