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La saisie de la matière dans la poésie d'André du Bouchet, Jacques Dupin et Philippe Jaccottet

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Jan. 1, 1997

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Paris 8

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Abstract EN:

This study treats of three poetes of the post-surrealist generation, andre du bouchet, jacques dupin and philippe jaccottet. The title is designed to indicate the immediacy first of all. Against a certain tendency of surrealisme who favoured the " image " (poetic and visual) as its synonym, these poets (and yves bonnefoy who also faced the annihilation of every ideolgy with the war) recognized the necessity of return to the real, the material, as the solid ground at the very root of the imaginary world. Their mouvement of return was such radical that they called into question the representation itself, on the imaginary, verbal and even political level. But their ultimate desire to attain the real not yet represented, the material not yet reduced to the form is definitely unrealizable. In trying to keep away the representation from their language, they will find an unimaginable dimension which can futher be real, concrete and even shattering : the material or psychic reality which can never be represented. This trail to go beyond the representation cause the searing contradiction in the language, proving the division of the subject, understood as the corporal and linguistic unity. In the course of this study, we underlined, through the psychoanalytic, phenomenologic and linguistic approaches, the rehabilitation of the conception of the subject and therewith the lyricisme, and the increased importance that theses poetes give to the unaccountable otherness. This theme and associated others are reflected differentely in the style and the landscape of each poet. We started from du bouchet, whose refusal of image was perhaps the most radical, and then passed on to dupin who, on the contrary, exploit the fiction. We placed jaccotett at the end to see the return to selected images and to the new relationship, which is the beginning of the + passage ;.

Abstract FR:

Ceci est une etude sur la question d'immediatete chez les trois poetes (andre du bouchet, jacques dupin et philippe jaccottet) de la generation post-surrealiste. Contre le surrealisme qui revendiquait le primat de l'image visuelle et poetique comme immediat, ces poetes qui ont vu l'effondrement de toutes les + idees ; avec la guerre, voulaient proposer le reel, la matiere plutot que l'inflation imaginaire. Leur mouvement du retour au reel etait si radical qu'ils ont remis en cause l'idee meme de la representation, imaginaire, verbale et meme politique. Leur but ultime est l'acces a ce + reel ; non represente, a la matiere non reduite a la forme, ce qui est pourtant impossible a jamais. En essayant d'oter la representation, ils decouvrent fatalement une dimension inconnaissable qui est encore plus reelle, materielle et bouleversante : la realite materielle ou psychique hors de tous les savoirs. Et cette tentative qui vise l'impossible ne peut qu'entrainer la contradiction dechirante au niveau de l'enonce, en attestant la divison du sujet. Ce theme essentiel de la redefinition de la place du sujet (et par consequent celle du lyrisme) et de la prise en compte de l'innommable absolu est reflete differemment dans le style et le paysage de chaque poete. Nous voulions mettre en lumiere ce theme et les autres associes en empruntant des voies de la phenomenologie, la psychanalyse et la linguistique. Nous avons place du bouchet au debut pour souligner le refus violent de l'image, et ensuite nous sommes passes a dupin qui fait en revanche appel au truchement de la fiction. Puis jaccottet, qui choisit la relativisation et cherche certaines images qui permettent le + passage ;, conclut nos etudes.