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Parte del testo è stato messo in musica col titolo "Each man kills the thing he loves", brano che fa parte della colonna sonora del film “Querelle de Brest” (1982) di Rainer Werner Fassbinder, tratto dal romanzo “Querelle de Brest” di Jean Genet.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By Oscar Wilde. I. He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands. When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. He walked amongst the Trial Men. In a suit of shabby gray; A cricket cap was on his head,
Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon ...
The coward kills the thing he loves with a kiss (recalling Judas, the betrayer of Jesus, who identified Jesus to the Roman authorities by kissing him), much as Wilde’s own relationship with Bosie had been the kiss of death.
22 gen 2018 · Jeanne Moreau - Each man kills the thing he loves (traduzione in Italiano) : Ogni uomo uccide ciò che egli ama, / e tutti lo sappiamo: / Alcuni lo fanno.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard. Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
