La poésie, l’absurde, le réel et le Nord Le Collège de ‘Pataphysique et les poètes de la revue Liberté
In this article, the author compares, from the point of view of the imaginated North—conceived as a system of signs,—two issues of poetry journals which both propose to think, in the North, a place where the relationships between reality, fiction, power, politics, history and poetry, blur. The first...
| Published in: | Nordic Journal of Francophone Studies/Revue nordique des études francophones |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | French |
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Stockholm University Press
2020
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| Online Access: | https://franorfon.org/jms/article/view/42 https://doi.org/10.16993/rnef.42 |
| Summary: | In this article, the author compares, from the point of view of the imaginated North—conceived as a system of signs,—two issues of poetry journals which both propose to think, in the North, a place where the relationships between reality, fiction, power, politics, history and poetry, blur. The first, published in Paris in 1961 in the Cahiers du Collège de ‘Pataphysique, deals with “the North Pole”; the second, published in Montreal in 1964 in the journal Liberté, deals with the “Manicouagan”, a river in northern Québec. Both place poetry at the highest of literary expressions; both relate to the North; both finally blur the lines between the real and the imaginary. Despite the difference in their context of enunciation, they testify to the importance of literature in the construction and constitution of the North as an idea and as an imagined space in the Euro-American world and in Francophone literature. The author notes, from the point of view of the study of cultural images, that the North seems, for all authors, impossible to grasp outside of discourse, here that of literature and poetry. The imagined North as the sum of discourse in continuous movement is here the experimental site of the confluence of knowledge and forms of expression. RésuméDans le présent article,1 l’auteur compare, du point de vue de l’imaginaire du Nord conçu comme un système de signes, deux numéros de revue de poésie qui proposent tous deux de penser, au Nord, un lieu où peuvent se brouiller les rapports entre réalité, fiction, pouvoir, politique, histoire et poésie. Le premier, publié à Paris en 1961 dans les Cahiers du Collège de ‘Pataphysique, a pour thème le « Pôle Nord »; le second, publié à Montréal en 1964 dans la revue Liberté, porte sur la « Manicouagan », une rivière du Nord du Québec. Tous deux placent la poésie au plus haut des expressions littéraires, traitent du Nord et proposent un brouillage des frontières entre le réel et l’imaginaire. Malgré la différence de leur contexte d’énonciation, ils témoignent de l’importance ... |
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