A crisis of modernity in poetry: from Pierre Reverdy's impotence to Danielle Collobert's self-annulment
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https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.977Keywords:
modernisme, Pierre Reverdy, Danielle Collobert, poésie élégiaque, postmodernismeAbstract
From Pierre Reverdy to Danielle Collobert, this article explores elegiac tonality in modern poetry, haunted by white, emptiness and impotence and marked by an irremediable caesura with the world along with a loss of intersubjectivity which leads to incommunicability. The legacy of Pierre Reverdy, however, lies not only in negation, for Surrealism owes him a theory of the image. Surrealism, therefore, goes beyond the limits of modernism and we argue that it bears within the seeds of postmodernism.
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