ABSTRACT This article examines depictions of blindness across painting, poetry and theatre. Bruegel’s sixteenth-century painting, The Parable of the Blind, strongly resonates with Baudelaire’s and Maeterlinck’s portraits of the blind in mid- to late-nineteenth-century France and Belgium. I argue that Baudelaire’s poem ‘Les Aveugles’ and Maeterlinck’s one-act play Les Aveugles used the motif of blindness to undermine the power of sight, encouraging the reader/spectator to cultivate a synaesthesia of the senses. Here, blindness becomes emblematic of the condition of the poet/seer in modernity, the blind embodying the tension between the poet’s plunge into darkness and his upward glance toward the eternal.

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“ Que cherchent-ils au Ciel？”：在Bruegel，Baudelaire和Maeterlinck与盲人见面

摘要本文研究了绘画，诗歌和戏剧中的盲目性。布鲁格的十六世纪画作《盲人的寓言》在19世纪中后期至法国和比利时与鲍德莱尔和马特林克的盲人肖像产生了强烈的共鸣。我认为，鲍德莱尔的诗歌《 Les Aveugles》和Maeterlinck的一幕剧《 Les Aveugles》利用盲目的主题破坏了视觉的力量，从而鼓励读者/观众建立感官的联觉。在这里，盲目性成为现代诗人/诗人状况的象征，盲人体现了诗人陷入黑暗与他对永恒的向上目光之间的张力。