Abstract EN:

The present work is based on the writings of a poet who cared as much about the realm of forms peculiar to plastic arts and music as about his own language. Now, segalen's artistic experience is not so much to be regarded as the mere divertimento of an aesthete but as an anxious investigation into the nature of our ability to generate, devise and perceive mental pictures. The poetical figure, half way between the presence or absence of reference bespeaks a play activity and reveals a pent-up desire as well. Thus, it does not seem that the meaning to be given to the life of forms should be univocal; therefore it is both as a passionate visionary and a stern critic that segalen endeavours to analyse the functioning of that never-achieving -one's aims power, that other reality- the world of fantasy.