Notes sur le silence et l’écriture élégiaque (La parole poétique comme errance principielle)

All literature is the experience of language at its limits, in its confines : music, cry or silence (Deleuze). All literature is a trace (litterata) of what has passed/is past. The elegy is thus a representative genre of literature, given its rapport to the lost, past, Old Days (according to Quignard), and the void. Yet in reality, it produces silence, like painting produces the invisible.