La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and the Little Joan of France), published in Paris in September 1913, is in many respects a foundational text for modernism in literature and… Read More ›
French modernist poetry
Analysis of André du Bouchet’s Painting
One of du Bouchet’s most challenging palimpsests of synesthetic theory and praxis, his book-length poem Peinture (1983) at once discusses and inhabits creative processes of unwriting and unpainting. Examining fluid thresholds between “painting,” disappearance, and the open, the text performs… Read More ›
Analysis of Louis Aragon’s The Lilacs and the Roses
Louis Aragon’s collection Le Crève-cœur (Heartbreak, 1941) contains 22 poems written between October 1939 and October 1940, the last nine of which express the heartbreak caused by the calamity of the German invasion of France and the subsequent occupation. The… Read More ›
Analysis of Jacques Dupin’s Hooks of the Idyll
Published first in 1967 in Jacques Dupin’s poetry volume Proximité du murmure (The Encroaching Murmur), Agrafes de l’idylle is constituted of slow, breathless, fragmentary sentences. Its title in the original French sounds a radical negation of writing: a cognate of… Read More ›
Analysis of Paul Claudel’s Five Great Odes
Five Great Odes (Cinq Grandes Odes) comprises five confessional poems composed by French poet, dramatist, and diplomat Paul Claudel between 1901 and 1908. They were collected and published in book form in 1910. The first poem, The Muses (Les Muses),… Read More ›
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