Abstract EN:

This analysis tackles the bases of Reverdy's poetic identity through various staging of the I : in space, in the theatricality, in the narrative, with the character passing from fiction to theatrical performance. The poet gives an aesthetic and dramatic dimension to reality revealing the original meaning of the world. The writing too takes a token role through its fragmentation, with every single "flaque de verre" mirroring a new image in which the poet's name is set in an obsessive quest for identity. The broken up narrative leads to a fragmented talk and voices convey the meaning. The deliberately blurred enunciation echoes the interrogation on the identity and leaves it up to the reader again to construe the theme from various scattered clues. Once the poem is no longer in the first person, Reverdy refers to a lyrical plural. So that it is no longer the I that matters but the self, the reflexive which refers both to the singular individuality but also to plurality and reflexivity.