Abstract EN:

This research is dedicated to an hitherto unpublished manuscript put together by Blaise cedars in 1939 in the hope of publishing a book entitled sous Le signe de François Villon. The manuscript contains an handwritten lay-out François Villon and four texts two of which were already published (Une nuit dans la forêt 1929 and Vol à voile 1932) and two other texts as yet unpublished at that time (Sous le signe de François Villon and Le sans nom) but which came out in an abreged version finally in 1952, respectively in La table ronde and in The revue de Paris. In reality such a text was never published so that it could be considered a pseudo-unpublished book. This study starts with the genetical analysis of the handwritten lay-out, which although never brought to print, proves to be the poetic repository of the memoires. Consequently, having evaluated the pratical and theoretical importance of the poet François Villon in the cendrarsian production, this research focuses on the development of the text "Sous le signe de François Villon" this text represents a radical transition in the writer's poetics because it marks irrevocably the advent of the author's self in his writing according to a dialectic process (annihilation, substitution and filiation between Cendrars and Villon) which expresses itself in the philosophical terms of "practice". And lastly, the notion of "prochronie", founder principle of sous Le signe de François Villon becomes the principal object of the research and from that perspective we develop the analysis of the three "prochonies" of this book, apparently heterogeneous, but which possesses a certain poetic unity. In conclusion, we investigate the failed publication of sous Le signe de François Villon (1940-1952) and we propose some answers. Therefore, this work reveals the importance of this manuscript and revives the interest in the publication of such a secret book.