Abstract EN:

Roger Munier, translator and friend of Heidegger, is the author of a meditative poetry. The object of the thesis is to ask if his work can be consider as a "topology of the being" whereas in The Experience of the thinking Heidegger has declared : "The thinking poetry is truly the topology of the being". It seams that Roger Munier is closer to the Open of Rilke than to the opening of the being of Heidegger, and that the "topology" which Heidegger is speaking about is a too narrow frame for the French author. Moreover, he prefers the fragment to the poem and does not award the poem the privilege of the "thinking poetry". Roger Munier stays however close to Heidegger and to the phenomenology because his will to access to the "things themselves". This attention to the things needs an epiphanical poetry turned towards the sensible and concerned with the translation of the presence. But the hermeneutism subverts the phenomenological method and the poetical descriptions of Roger Munier are only apparently close to those of Husserl and Heidegger. From Melancholy (1987), it is the mystery of the pure outside, and not yet the sensible in itself, that keeps the attention of the author. Indeed, his poetical writing is rather in service of the mystical experience than of the thinking. Impressed by his readings of Master Eckhart and his translation of Silesius, Roger Munier turns himself towards the negative way. So his "topology" is rather a topology of the nothingness than a "topology of the being". This work, which is located in the heritage of Heidegger and German Romanticism, therefore belongs to epiphanical poetry but has to be settled at European range and not inside the too narrow perspective of the French poetry. His originality consists in the union of a poetry of the presence outside the poem and of negative hermeneutism. For Roger Munier, poetry is not a purpose in itself but the means of the topology of the nothingness which is to be achieved.