IDENTITY
Les ruines
Literature
Work Summary
Les ruines by Jules Breton is a poem using ruins as a setting for reflection on time, loss, memory and historical disappearance. Physical decay becomes a means of contemplating what survives and what passes away.
Evidence Summary
The editors identify its publication in La Nouvelle Revue and note that Van Gogh read this periodical at his parents' house.
The poem enters his letter alongside discussion of Rembrandt, Fromentin and Thoré.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Jules Breton
Work
Les ruines
Years / Period
20 Nov 1885
Van Gogh Relation
Quoted / Copied
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
20 Nov 1885 — Letter 543
Quoted / Copied · Copied / transcribed
Van Gogh encloses and copies Breton's sonnet ‘Les ruines’.
Response: The editors identify its publication in La Nouvelle Revue and note that Van Gogh read this periodical at his parents' house.
Connection: The poem enters his letter alongside discussion of Rembrandt, Fromentin and Thoré.
Related Research Nodes
Study Subject
Themes
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