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Lecture
Dans Lecture, prenant les mots pour esquifs, unissant les sens et les sons, il explore les errances de l'Etre parmi des labyrinthes, des cavernes, des gouffres. Sans cesse, il interroge, invente, s'étonne. Paysages, figures, signes, symboles, sa géographie lui offre des cartes mouvantes. A d'incessants appels, à des explorations intérieures, des extractions succèdent le voyage sans fin, la quête de terres inconnues, de l'autre versant de secrètes années.
Une double lumière, blanche et noire, éclaire des espaces sensibles. Pour le poète, l'énigme de l'homme s'apparente à l'énigme de l'univers, l'émerveillement devient exorcisme, le cosmos objet de célébration. De soi-même, de l'autre, du double, une autre Lecture est proposée, lecture aussi du poème, peut-être ouverture à la Poésie.
Une double lumière, blanche et noire, éclaire des espaces sensibles. Pour le poète, l'énigme de l'homme s'apparente à l'énigme de l'univers, l'émerveillement devient exorcisme, le cosmos objet de célébration. De soi-même, de l'autre, du double, une autre Lecture est proposée, lecture aussi du poème, peut-être ouverture à la Poésie.
102 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1987
About the author
Robert Sabatier
101 books15 followersRobert Sabatier was a French poet and writer. He wrote numerous novels, essays and books of aphorisms and poems. He was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1971, as well as to the Académie Mallarme. He is also the author of Histoire de la poésie française: La poésie du XVIIe siècle.
Among his notable works is the autobiographical series of novels "Roman d'Olivier" about growing up in the streets of a poor quarter in Paris during the 1930s. A title from the series, Les Allumettes Suédoises (The Safety Matches, also translated under the title The Match Boy), was adapted for French TV by Jacques Ertaud. According to Kirkus Reviews, the book Les Allumettes Suédoises sold 200,000 copies. Other autobiographical installments include "Olivier 1940" and "Les Trompettes Guerrières". More recent works include Diogène about the Cynic philosopher of ancient Greece.
As a poet, Sabatier was awarded Le Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 1955. A small selection of Sabatier's poems have been published in English translations by the American poet X.J. Kennedy and others in the anthology Modern European Poetry (edited by Willis Barnstone et al., published by Bantam Books, NY, 1966). Kennedy's translations of Sabatier include the poems "Vegetal Body" and the elegiac "Mortal Landscape" where Sabatier wonders
The bird is flown, the monster not yet born
where shall we go in this demolished world?".
In an introduction to Sabatier, Barnstone states: "The poet's despair has sharp edges . . . but the bitter violence that strikes at the reader of these poems has its roots in an earlier joy that persists like a dream." Sabatier's poetry is deeply colored by memory and division: "He held the image that he loved so tight/his body itself cast two shadows."
Before his death, Sabatier was writing his memoirs.
Among his notable works is the autobiographical series of novels "Roman d'Olivier" about growing up in the streets of a poor quarter in Paris during the 1930s. A title from the series, Les Allumettes Suédoises (The Safety Matches, also translated under the title The Match Boy), was adapted for French TV by Jacques Ertaud. According to Kirkus Reviews, the book Les Allumettes Suédoises sold 200,000 copies. Other autobiographical installments include "Olivier 1940" and "Les Trompettes Guerrières". More recent works include Diogène about the Cynic philosopher of ancient Greece.
As a poet, Sabatier was awarded Le Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 1955. A small selection of Sabatier's poems have been published in English translations by the American poet X.J. Kennedy and others in the anthology Modern European Poetry (edited by Willis Barnstone et al., published by Bantam Books, NY, 1966). Kennedy's translations of Sabatier include the poems "Vegetal Body" and the elegiac "Mortal Landscape" where Sabatier wonders
The bird is flown, the monster not yet born
where shall we go in this demolished world?".
In an introduction to Sabatier, Barnstone states: "The poet's despair has sharp edges . . . but the bitter violence that strikes at the reader of these poems has its roots in an earlier joy that persists like a dream." Sabatier's poetry is deeply colored by memory and division: "He held the image that he loved so tight/his body itself cast two shadows."
Before his death, Sabatier was writing his memoirs.
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February 9, 2025
Excellent and nuanced poetry, a very cohesive volume.
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