La poéticité du poème en prose
Poeticity of the Prose Poem

Summary/Abstract: We propose to solve—even hypothetically—an issue that is still insufficiently clarified, that of the “textual nature” of the French poem in prose, from a historical perspective (diachronic), covering about a century and a half of literary history, and from a theoretical (synchronous) one. The masters of this type of text—Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Mallarmé—are analized and after that we discuss a historical-literal approach to the surrealist movement, respecting the limits imposed by the specific function of the poem in prose: concision, coherence, autonomy, gratuity. Thus, the “discursive typology” of this hybrid is identified. We may add that we are talking about a totalizing and integrating genre with its occurrence, evolution and meteoric extinction (an enigma that requires to be solved in the future)

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