Metaphorically making the sun revolve The use of metaphor in the manuscripts of Le Soleil placé en abîme

Studying the manuscripts for Le Soleil placé en abîme, this article looks back at Francis Ponge’s use of metaphor. If, as his work emerges, the writer seeks to circumscribe the sun through metaphor, he faces a twofold tyranny: that of the sun and that of the image. Since he can escape neither, he must integrate the sun within his own system and parasitize the omnipotence of metaphors . . . through metaphor.