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De la quête de l'origine : une lecture de l'oeuvre de Lorand Gaspar

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1998

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Paris 12

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Abstract EN:

Through his vision of the world as text, lorand gaspar takes his place amongst the thinkers who have the deepest roots in judeo-christian traditions. The idea of an inherent textualism in everything was developed by way of the medieval jewish mystique. By backing it up with his reference to genetics, gaspar incorporates it into his poetics. It's to his experience of the desert that the author owes his discovery of poetry. His intuition of belonging - since his origins - to the near east has provided us with a thread that we can use to attempt to retrace his itinerary. Perceived as a "landscape(s) of genesis and of the falling of angels", this space permits the poet to dig into all of the strata in the history of the word. It's in silence, in this "vertical solitude", that the road of the "interior distance" is travelled. In his poetics, the "text of life" corresponds with the "writing of the world", in his celebration of the "gesture of matter", every element is a carnal presence. A fragmentary writing responds to the density of silence. A knowledge through the senses responds to the corporal nature of light. Everything is brought into play so that the text will be equal to the "inexhaustible poiein". At the centre of the work, there is also the other. It is one of his reasons for existing. His presence is a conjuration of all exiles, to the extent that it allows the being in search for his/her origins to grasp the world as a vast home.

Abstract FR:

Par sa vision du monde comme texte, lorand gaspar s'inscrit dans une lignee de penseurs profondement enracines dans la tradition judeo-chretienne. L'idee d'une textualite inherente a tout ce qui existe a ete developpee par un courant de la mystique juive medievale. En l'etayant par sa reference a la genetique, gaspar l'incorpore a sa poetique. C'est a l'experience du desert que l'auteur doit sa venue a la poesie. Son intuition d'appartenir - depuis l'origine - au proche-orient nous a servi de fil conducteur pour tenter de refaire son itineraire. Percu comme un 'paysage(s) de genese et de chute des anges", cet espace permet au poete de creuser dans toutes les strates de l'histoire du verbe. C'est dans le silence, cette "solitude verticale", que se fait le parcours de "la distance interieure". A "l'ecriture du monde" correspond dans sa poetique "le texte de la vie". Dans sa celebration de la "geste de la matiere" tout element est une presence chamelle. A la densite du silence repond une ecriture fragmentaire. A la corporeite de la lumiere repond une connaissance par les sens. Tout est mis en oeuvre pour que le texte soit a la hauteur du "poiein inepuisable". Au centre de l'oeuvre il y a aussi l'autre. Il est l'une de ses raisons d'etre. Sa presence est une conjuration de tous les exils, dans la mesure ou elle permet a l'etre en quete de ses origines d'apprehender le monde comme un vaste chez-soi.