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Arthur de Bussières (
January
20,
1877
-
May
7,
1913
) is a Quebec poet. No biographical sources published during
Émile Nelligan (1879–1941)'s
lifetime contain any confirmed record of Nelligan having had any sexual or
romantic relationships with either men or women,[4]
although some posthumous sources have suggested that he may have been the
lover of Arthur de Bussières.[3]
Within the École littéraire de Montréal circle with which both Nelligan
and Bussières were associated, it was widely believed that Nelligan was
confined to the asylum because his mother discovered him and Bussières in bed
together,[3]
although this claim was not widely publicized until the late 20th century and
remains unconfirmed. Conversely, the 1991 biographical film
Nelligan depicts Nelligan as a celibate
bisexual, portraying him as sexually ambivalent in the face of romantic
attractions to both Bussières and feminist activist
Idola Saint-Jean, and implying that his mother attempted to commit
incest with
him.[5]
Born in
Montreal , Arthur de Bussières studied at the Saint-Jean-Baptiste school
with the
clerics of Saint-Viateur .
To
live, he works as a painter and decorator.
His first poems were published in
Le Monde Illustré in 1896.
He
became a member of the
École littéraire de Montréal on October 1
, 1896. He introduced Émile Nelligan to the group in 1897. He was a friend of the poet
Charles Gill .
He left this school in
1900 but returned in
1910 .
He
is above all friends with Henry Desjardins, to whom he dedicates the poem
Réminiscences .
This friendship is mutual: “Henry Desjardins, taking
advantage of a prolonged absence of his friend, reads, at the session of April
22, 1898 of the Literary School, a review of the sonnets of A. de Bussières
[ 1 ]
.
"
He was also linked to
Joseph Melançon , who dedicated the poem Somnium to him
[ 2 ]
.
He joined the evening literary events of the École littéraire de Montréal at the Château Ramezay. In 1900 the first collected volume of the group appeared, Les soireés du Château Ramezay.
de Bussières' literary period was brief.
Three of his poems are published in Le Petit Messager du Très
Saint-Sacrement edited by
Louis Dantin and then taken up in Franges d'autel (1900).
A. de Bussières published his poems in several Quebec magazines of his time:
Le Monde Illustré (24 poems between September 5, 1896 and February 8,
1902), Le Passe-Temps (20 poems between October 30, 1897 and September
27, 1913 ), L'Avenir (two poems between November 4 and 9, 1900),
L'Étudiant (a poem on April 13, 1901), La Revue populaire (six
poems between September 1908 and July 1914), Les Débats (six poems
between December 10, 1899 and April 7, 1901), The National Alliance
(four poems between March 1897 and December 1906), Anthology of Canadian
poets (three poems in 1920)
[ 3 ]
.
All of his poems will be taken up in volume almost twenty years after his
death, in the collection Les Bengalis , by Casimir Hébert, who received
the notebook bearing this same title from the poet's sister, Madame Wilfrid
Massie
[ 4 ]
.
The collection has a total of 61 poems, the production of which ranges as
follows: six in 1896
[ 5 ]
, eighteen in 1897, eleven in 1898, twelve in 1899, nine in 1900, one in 1910,
two in 1911, two in 1912
[ 3 ]
.
de
Bussières excelled in
sonnet , but had more difficulty with
prose , according to journalist
Olivar Asselin.
[ 6 ]
Unfortunate poet, having known his
bohemianism , he read
Baudelaire ,
Hérédia ,
Leconte de Lisle and
Maurice Rollinat .
Died in
1913 , he received a place in the Anthology of Canadian poets by
Jules Fournier in
1920
[ 7 ]
.
It
went into oblivion for a while, but it was rediscovered thanks to the numerous
studies on Nelligan.
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