Fêtes galantes
Twenty-two short pieces set in a park out of Watteau, where masked figures in silk cross the lawns at dusk saying things neither of them means. The register keeps slipping under the party: the singing is thin, the statues are chipped, and the lovers turn out to be ghosts talking past each other. Verlaine reached the eighteenth century through the Goncourts and used it to write about feeling that fails to arrive.
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