Abstract EN:

This dissertation purports to demonstrate that the notion of a "work" for michaud puts to the test most of the knowledge concerning literature and consequently the very nature of the poetic fact : as a questioning of the workings of language, poetry becomes inseparable from the investigation of the sciences in our century, particularly so anthropology in the broad sense of the term. The hypothesis positing michaux's writing as "essay-writing" rests on both the acknowledging of the reception of the work and michaux's own theoretical reflexion; hence such an assumption acquires a critical and a heuristic function, inasmuch as the notion of "essay writing" persistently puts to the test aesthetic categories and discourse practices. The aim of this dissertation consists in exploring the specificity of michaux's text opening heretofore unknown perspectives concerning the understanding of the relationship between conceptual thought and experience of the self, between writing systems and pictorial creation, between the written word and the voice. The analysis of orality in michaux's writing, heretofore neglected by criticism on the whole, reveals that not only is there no heterogeneity between the oral and the visual, but that this orality participates of the global significance of the work envisaged as a reconstruction of a scattered body. The myth of orpheus turns out to be solidary, in michaux's work, of a voyage through encyclopedia.