Journal | Il Tolomeo
Journal issue | 21 | 2019
Research Article | Édouard Glissant lecteur de Claudel

Édouard Glissant lecteur de Claudel

Abstract

Among the several volumes of essays published by Edouard Glissant from 1956 to 2010, the passages dedicated to other writers, poets, essayists and philosophers are numerous. Together with Saint-John Perse, Faulkner and Césaire, the name of Paul Claudel insistently returns, and in particular the commentary on the IV Ode, La Muse qui est la grâce. We propose here to reconstruct from one essay to another the path of Glissant’s thought on Claudel and to investigate the reasons that led Glissant towards a constant and passionate reading despite the intellectual distance that separates the two poets. The character of Christopher Columbus, whom Glissant engages with in the epic poem Les Indes and in the novel Ormerod and is also present in Claudel’s play Le Livre de Christophe Colomb, allows us to establish a comparison between the poetics of the two writers and synthesises commonality and distance between them.


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Submitted: Sept. 1, 2019 | Accepted: Sept. 18, 2019 | Published Dec. 19, 2019 | Language: fr

Keywords Edouard Glissant • Contemporary French novel • Christophe Colomb • Paul Claudel • Caribbean francophone literature

Copyright © 2019 Elena Pessini. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2019/01/019


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