Abstract EN:

The great number -nearly four hundred- of rene char's poetical works, illustrated, illuminated or set into atistic objects -decorated woods or engraved and painted stones- allows us to determine from the precise case of char's artistic produc- tions the parameters involved in the translation of a textual work into a plas- tic work that articulates thanks to space and visual signals messages that can be analysed and are related to the genotext of a poem. Rene char thus enlarges the poetical function to other arts such as painting, sculpture, cinema, theatre and choregraphy, with or without the help of artists whom he calls his substan- tial allies. Our study of scriptural-and-plastic texts will rely on a comparative analysis of the genesis of the writing, thanks to the variations, confidences, exchange of letters, internal criticisms -either structural, semantic or thema- tic- and the stages of the pictorial achievement associated to it : the prepara- tory working, the morphological, iconographical and iconological analysis of the various alternatives. . . The confrontation, both diachronic and synchronic, of the graphic translations brought at different times by some forty painters, with styles and tempers of their own, will define rene char's aesthetical and poetical choices and refusals. Finally, char is progressively brought to the plastic crea- tion in three successive stages. . . . . .