"Les complaintes" (English spelling)

…Although constantly immersed in boredom, he never forgot his tender love for small things, and devoted himself to dreams, knowing that they were impossible. He was a typical example of fin de siècle sensibility. His collection of poems, Les complaintes (1885), is a simple verse work that sings of melancholy laughter and tears, using wordplay, slang, and deliberately breaking rhythm in traditional poetic style. His collection of short stories, Moralités légendaires (1887), is a retelling of stories such as Hamlet and Salome, reincarnated into Laforgue's own world, and Hamlet in particular, along with Les derniers vers (1890), can be said to be the crystallization of fin de siècle sensibility and consciousness. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Les complaintes" is listed below.

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…たえず倦怠感に浸されながら，ささやかな事象への優しい愛を忘れず，不可能と知りつつ夢想へと身をささげた彼は，まさしく世紀末的感受性の一典型であった。詩集《嘆きぶしLes complaintes》(1885)は，伝統的詩法に言葉遊びや俗語や意識的破調を導入した自由詩のかたちで憂鬱な泣き笑いを平明な調子で歌ったものである。一種の短編集ともいえる《伝説的教訓劇Moralités légendaires》(1887)はハムレットやサロメなどの物語をラフォルグ独自の世界へと転生させた語り直しであり，とくに〈ハムレット〉は《最後の詩Les derniers vers》(1890)とともに世紀末的感受性と意識の結晶といえる。…

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