La Fabrique Du Pré

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University of Missouri Press, 1979 - Poetry - 231 pages
The making of the Pré is the culmination of Francis Ponge's loving struggle with language. To say that this work is just a text with illustrations, or simply a notebook of preliminary sketches leading to a final poem, or to call it merely a self-demonstrating development of a thought process, a hymn of praise, or an essay on the way that language represents objects and emotions would be insufficient. -- Introduction.

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A poet long unread, Ponge has come into his own since the 1950s with admirers from Sartre to Sollers. Sartre considered him the poet of existentialism. Yet Ponge's poetry is concerned with the priority of objectivity, with things as they exist apart from people. This objectivity has attracted him to writers of the new novel and to the group of semiotic critics centered on the literary review Tel Quel. Among his major collections are Le Parti Pris des Choses (The Voice of Things, 1942), Le Grand Recueil (The Big Collection, 1961), and Le Savon (Soap, 1967).

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