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Les voisinages de Van Gogh
Parmi les sorties violentes d'étoiles, nos tutoyeuses, une qui pousse un cri contre nous puis meurt, d'autres qui brillent une soirée d'impatience puis s'opposent, comme si de rien n'était, d'elles à nous. Seront-elles toujours surplombantes dans la Voie où nous étouffons, où nous étranglons ? L'effrayante familiarité des matières célestes avec leur entourage rutilant, baisé au rouge des hommes, ceux-ci non encore composés, moins encore archivés, ou seulement dès que les désirs des forains divins les ont révélés à leur possible de malheur. La plus proche lune, l'assoiffée, se montrera au juste instant de nos eaux vives.
Prend fin le portrait de tant de nullité et de crimes fendant le vide et l'espérance autant que la nausée, en suspension dans le peu d'air restant. Nous ne sommes pas matière à douter devant le rituel sablonneux laissé au rivage exténué des Saintes.
Prend fin le portrait de tant de nullité et de crimes fendant le vide et l'espérance autant que la nausée, en suspension dans le peu d'air restant. Nous ne sommes pas matière à douter devant le rituel sablonneux laissé au rivage exténué des Saintes.
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First published May 24, 1985
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About the author
René Char
147 books130 followersRené Char spent his childhood in Névons, the substantial family home completed at his birth, then studied as a boarder at the school of Avignon and subsequently, in 1925, a student at L'École de Commerce de Marseille, where he read Plutarch, François Villon, Racine, the German Romantics, Alfred de Vigny, Gérard de Nerval and Charles Baudelaire.
His first book, Cloches sur le cœur was published in 1928 as a compilation of poems written between 1922 and 1926. In late November 1929, Char moved to Paris, where he met Louis Aragon, André Breton, and René Crevel, and joined the surrealists. He remained active in the surrealist movement through the early 1930s but distanced himself gradually from the mid-1930s onward. Throughout his career, Char's work appeared in various editions, often with artwork by notable figures, including Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque, Miró, Matisse and Vieira da Silva.
Char was a friend and close associate of Albert Camus, Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot among writers, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Nicolas de Staël, Georges Braque and Victor Brauner among painters. He was to have been in the car involved in the accident that killed both Camus and Gallimard, but there was not enough room, and returned instead that day by train to Paris.
The composer Pierre Boulez wrote three settings of Char's poetry, Le Soleil des eaux, Le visage nuptial, and Le marteau sans maître. A late friendship developed also between Char and Martin Heidegger, who described Char's poetry as "a tour de force into the ineffable" and was repeatedly his guest at La Thor in the Vaucluse.
His first book, Cloches sur le cœur was published in 1928 as a compilation of poems written between 1922 and 1926. In late November 1929, Char moved to Paris, where he met Louis Aragon, André Breton, and René Crevel, and joined the surrealists. He remained active in the surrealist movement through the early 1930s but distanced himself gradually from the mid-1930s onward. Throughout his career, Char's work appeared in various editions, often with artwork by notable figures, including Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque, Miró, Matisse and Vieira da Silva.
Char was a friend and close associate of Albert Camus, Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot among writers, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Nicolas de Staël, Georges Braque and Victor Brauner among painters. He was to have been in the car involved in the accident that killed both Camus and Gallimard, but there was not enough room, and returned instead that day by train to Paris.
The composer Pierre Boulez wrote three settings of Char's poetry, Le Soleil des eaux, Le visage nuptial, and Le marteau sans maître. A late friendship developed also between Char and Martin Heidegger, who described Char's poetry as "a tour de force into the ineffable" and was repeatedly his guest at La Thor in the Vaucluse.
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June 23, 2015
LA poésie de René Char est toujours aussi forte ! Les voisinages de Van Gogh le confirment encore !
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