Yves Bonnefoy | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 25 pages of analysis & critique of Yves Bonnefoy.

Yves Bonnefoy | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 25 pages of analysis & critique of Yves Bonnefoy.
This section contains 6,296 words
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SOURCE: Stamelman, Richard. “The Crack in the Mirror: The Subversion of Image and Representation in the Poetry of Yves Bonnefoy.”1 French Forum 13, no. 1 (January 1988): 69-81.

In the following essay, Stamelman explores the dimensions of “Bonnefoy's subversion of representation in his poetry and writings on art.”

“C'est simple,” Yves Bonnefoy writes in “L'Entaille,” a recent poem in prose:

On trempe un doigt dans la gouache bleue, on le fait glisser sur les mots à peine tracés dans l'encre noire, et du mélange de l'encre et de la couleur monte, marée, algues qui remuent dans l'eau trouble, ce qui n'est plus le signe, n'est plus l'image,—nos deux passions, nos deux leurres. On a ouvert les yeux, on avance, dans la lumière de l'aube.

Mais je m'éveille. Devant moi sur le mur aux couleurs superposées qui s'écaillent, il y a cette forme qui fut...

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This section contains 6,296 words
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