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Revue française d’études américaines
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I.S.B.N.2701141729
160 pages

p. 50 à 63
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no 103 2005/1


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Vers une archéologie du collage : The Tablets d’Armand Schwerner

Antoine Cazé
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This study attempts to account for Armand Schwerner’s “archeological poetics” as expressed in his masterwork, The Tablets, a serial text whose material is the reconstruction of Sumero-Akkadian clay tablets which entail a complex meditation upon memory and archives as a founding substratum of both the individual psyche and the collective institutions recording its history. I argue that in composing his series of poems, the poet’s purpose was to reflect upon and enact the consequences of writing in a mixed poetic mode which freely combines the lyric and the epic. This combination is given visual shape thanks to an elaborate collage turning each page of the volume into a typographical experiment—a technique that destabilizes perception and radically calls easy identifications into question. Far from simply being a postmodern trick, Schwerner’s ambitious archeological method leads the reader to reassess the ethical and political value of poetry as it meets history.Keywords : Schwerner, Armand, poetry, archeology/archive, lyricism, epic, collage.


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