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- Title
Mallarmé et Claudel : quelle voix pour la prose ?
- Authors
CHAREST, NELSON
- Abstract
This article explores the role of prose writing in the meeting of Mallarmé and Claudel. We want to demonstrate that prose, which is generally considered as apart from the "verse crisis," instead allows the development of a new aesthetic in the works of these two poets. Prose becomes a vector for the "voice" which unites them, the geographic distance notwithstanding, since Claudel was in the Orient the major part of the 1890's. This phenomenon is obvious in their correspondence but also in their prose, the essence of their exchanges at that time. Thus, these two poets included the speaking voice in their prose poetry: Mallarmé in giving voice to the people and Claudel in listening to the noises, sounds and Spirit of the Orient, three things new to him. In short, it's with the voice of their prose that both poets could say to each other: "Apart, we are together."
- Subjects
PROSE literature; MALLARME, Stephane, 1842-1898; CLAUDEL, Paul, 1868-1955; HUMAN voice in literature; 19TH century French authors; AUTHORS' correspondence; FRENCH prose poems
- Publication
Études Françaises, 2016, Vol 52, Issue 3, p77
- ISSN
0014-2085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1038058ar