« Devenir lierre » : le « Poème du mur » d'Antoine Emaz (En deçà, 1990)
"Devenir lierre" : the "Poème du mur" by Antoine Emaz (En deçà, 1990)

Author(s): Laure SAUVAGE
Subject(s): French Literature, Cultural Essay, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: Antoine Emaz; short form; metaliterarity; lyrism; aphorism; fragment;
Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the metaliterary nature of Antoine Emaz's "Poème du mur", which raises several questions of poetics. The refusal of immobilization creates an ambivalent confrontation with the wall. Poetic language then proposes different ways of creating thresholds. We first tackle the question of the lyrical outburst, a thwarted, derisory, but persistent impetus. We then study the conflict between the closure of speech and its opening, its dispersal. The mineral nature of the wall contaminates the language and tends to freeze it, but this process is partially countered. At the broader level of Emaz's work, the "Poème du mur" initiates a poetics as much as it reflects (on) it.

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