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Remy de Gourmont (April 4, 1858 – September 27, 1915) was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars. The spelling ''Rémy'' de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work. ==Life== De Gourmont was born at Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne, into a publishing family from Cotentin. He was the son of Count Auguste-Marie de Gourmont and his countess, born Mathilde de Montfort. In 1866 he moved to a manor close to Villedieu near La Manche. He studied law at Caen, and was awarded a bachelor's degree in law in 1879; upon his graduation he moved to Paris. In 1881, de Gourmont was employed by the Bibliothèque nationale. He began to write for general circulation periodicals such as ''Le Monde'' and ''Le Contemporain''. He took an interest in ancient literature, following the footsteps of Gustave Kahn. During this period, he also met Berthe Courrière, model for, and heir of, the sculptor Auguste Clésinger, with whom he formed a lifelong attachment, he and Berthe living together for the rest of their lives. De Gourmont also began a literary alliance with Joris-Karl Huysmans, to whom he dedicated his prose work ''Le Latin mystique'' (Mystical Latin). In 1889 de Gourmont became one of the founders of the ''Mercure de France'', which became a rallying point of the Symbolist movement.〔Burne, Glen S. (1963). ''Remy de Gourmont: His Ideas and Influence in England and America.'' Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.〕 Between 1893 and 1894 he was the co-editor, along with Alfred Jarry, of L'Ymagier, a magazine dedicated to symbolist wood carvings. In 1891 he published a polemic called ''Le Joujou Patriotisme'' (Patriotism, a toy) in which he argued that France and Germany shared an aesthetic culture and urged a rapprochement between the two countries, contrary to the wishes of nationalists in the French government. This political essay led to his losing his job at the Bibliothèque Nationale,〔Curtis, Michael (1959). ''Three Against the Third Republic: Sorel, Barrès and Maurras.'' New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, p. 40.〕 despite Octave Mirbeau's chronicles. During this same period, de Gourmont was stricken with lupus vulgaris.〔 Denkinger refers to the disease as "lupus tuberculeux", apparently lupus vulgaris, which is a form of tuberculosis of the skin, unrelated to systemic lupus erythematosus, the disease now commonly known as lupus.〕 Disfigured by this illness, he largely retired from public view appearing only at the offices of the ''Mercure de France''. In 1910, de Gourmont met Natalie Clifford Barney, to whom he dedicated his ''Lettres à l'Amazone'' (Letters to the Amazon). De Gourmont's health continued to decline and he began to suffer from locomotor ataxia and be increasingly unable to walk. He was deeply depressed by the outbreak of World War I and died in Paris of cerebral congestion in 1915. Berthe Courrière was his sole heir, inheriting a substantial body of unpublished work which she sent to his brother Jean de Gourmont, and dying within the year. De Gourmont is buried in Père-Lachaise Cemetery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Remy de Gourmont」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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