Œuvres Complètes De François Villon: Suivies D'UN Choix Des Poésies De Ses Disciples

François Villon was a poet who lived outside the law, and it shows in every savage line he wrote. Buried in this volume is the work of a 15th-century student turned criminal, a man who killed, stole, and somehow found time to compose some of the most brutally honest verse in French literature. Here you'll find 'Le Grand Testament' and 'Le Petit Testament,' Villon's verse autobiographies that read less like medieval poetry and more like confessions from a man who knows the gallows await. He writes of poverty with terrifying clarity, of love as disease, of death not as metaphor but as the rope waiting for his neck. The famous 'Ballad of the Hanged' speaks for the damned with a黑 humor that still shocks six centuries later. This collection also includes work by his disciples, giving context to Villon's revolutionary voice. For readers who thought medieval poetry meant courtly love and chivalric knights, Villon is the brutal correction: street-level, profane, and utterly alive.