Editing Paul Claudel (section)

==Work==
{{Main|List of works by Paul Claudel}}
Claudel often referred to [[Stéphane Mallarmé]] as his teacher.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Erwin |first1=John F. |title=Claudel and the Lesson of Mallarmé: The Theme of Absence |journal=L'Esprit Créateur |date=1973 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=44–54 |jstor=26279825 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26279825 |issn=0014-0767}}</ref> His poetic has been seen as Mallarmé's, with the addition of the idea of the world as a revelatory [[religious text]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bush |first1=Christopher |title=Ideographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media |date=1 February 2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-974139-7 |page=48 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8l1X3MwBXRkC&pg=PA48 |language=en}}</ref> He rejected traditional [[Prosody (linguistics)|prosody]], developing the ''verset claudelien'', his own form of [[free verse]]. It was within the orbit of experimentation by followers of [[Walt Whitman]], impressive for Claudel, of whom [[Charles Péguy]] and [[André Spire]] were two others working on a form of ''verset''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Erkkila |first1=Betsy |title=Walt Whitman Among the French: Poet and Myth |date=14 July 2014 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-5454-7 |page=138 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=drn_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA138 |language=en}}</ref> The influence of the Latin [[Vulgate]] has been disputed by [[Jean Grosjean]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dethurens |first1=Pascal |title=Claudel et l'avènement de la modernité: création littéraire et culture européenne dans l'œuvre théâtrale de Claudel |date=1996 |publisher=Presses Univ. Franche-Comté |isbn=978-2-251-60601-9 |page=219 and note 2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3pzpTZCEnmgC&pg=PA219 |language=fr}}</ref>

The best known of his plays are ''Le Partage de Midi'' ("The Break of Noon", 1906), ''L'Annonce faite à Marie'' ("The Tidings Brought to Mary", 1910) focusing on the themes of sacrifice, oblation and sanctification through the tale of a young medieval French peasant woman who contracts [[leprosy]], and ''Le Soulier de Satin'' ("[[The Satin Slipper]]", 1931). The last is an exploration of human and divine love and longing, set in the [[Spanish Empire]] of the [[siglo de oro]]. It was staged at the [[Comédie-Française]] in 1943. ''[[Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher]]'' ("Joan of Arc at the Stake", 1939) was an [[oratorio]] with music by [[Arthur Honegger]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smither |first1=Howard E. |title=A History of the Oratorio |date=1 September 2012 |publisher=UNC Press Books |isbn=978-0-8078-3778-8 |page=661|volume=4: The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qh_QfteHVEC&pg=PA661 |language=en}}</ref> The settings of his plays tended to be romantically distant, medieval France or sixteenth-century Spanish South America. He used scenes of passionate, obsessive human love. The complexity, structure and scale of the plays meant that a positive reception of Claudel's drama by audiences was long delayed.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=Dennis |title=The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance |date=26 August 2010 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-957419-3 |page=123 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xXCcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA123 |language=en}}</ref> His final dramatic work, ''[[L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara]]'', was first produced by [[Jean Vilar]] for the [[Festival d'Avignon]] in 1947.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hartnoll |first1=Phyllis |title=The Oxford Companion to the Theatre |date=1983 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0192115464 |page=182 |edition=4th}}</ref>

As well as his verse dramas, Claudel also wrote [[lyric poetry]]. A major example is the ''Cinq Grandes Odes'' (Five Great Odes, 1907).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hellerstein |first1=Nina S. |title=Mythe et structure dans les Cinq grandes odes de Paul Claudel |date=1990 |publisher=Presses Univ. Franche-Comté |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ir72om2EYEC&pg=PA27 |language=fr}}</ref>
[[Boštjan Marko Turk]]'s doctoral thesis examined the influence of medieval philosophy on Paul Claudel's poetic work, particularly ''Les Cinq Grandes Odes''. He summarized his findings in the monograph ''Paul Claudel et l'Actualité de l'être'' (2011),<ref>{{cite book | last = Turk | first = Boštjan Marko | author-link = | title = Paul Claudel et l'Actualité de l'etre, L'INSPIRATION THOMISTE DANS L'OEUVRE CLAUDELIENNE | publisher = P. Téqui | year =2011 | location =Paris| isbn = 978-2-7403-1464-7 | page = |language=French | url =https://www.librairietequi.com/paul-claudel-et-l-actualite-de-l-etre.html | access-date = 2024-10-17}}</ref> which was
recognized by {{ill|Dominique Millet-Gérard|fr}}, his doctoral advisor, for its contribution to understanding Claudel's work in the French-speaking world.