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Re: Responses to query on VN and synesthesia (Rimbaud)
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Speaking of laudition colorée, the French structuralist Gerard Genette in
one of his essays quotes a book by Paul Delbouille, POÉSIE ET SONORITÉS
(1961): « Toutes les couleurs ont au moins été attribuées une fois à chacune
des voyelles ». This probably means that VNs synaesthesia (the way
different sounds related to different colors) was as unique as his
handwriting or fingerprints. We know that the colors of VNs vowels were not
the same as the colors of Rimbauds voyelles, which might have been equally
unique.
Sergey Karpukhin
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one of his essays quotes a book by Paul Delbouille, POÉSIE ET SONORITÉS
(1961): « Toutes les couleurs ont au moins été attribuées une fois à chacune
des voyelles ». This probably means that VNs synaesthesia (the way
different sounds related to different colors) was as unique as his
handwriting or fingerprints. We know that the colors of VNs vowels were not
the same as the colors of Rimbauds voyelles, which might have been equally
unique.
Sergey Karpukhin
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