From parrêsia to litterary rage Corbière and Ducasse and the poetics of artificial (laughter)

This article explores the poetic affinities between Corbière and Ducasse, two “infréquentables” who claim and stand by an artificial creation born of the necessity to embrace the cynical “real life”. Deliberately choosing to embrace a dog’s life, they condemn the picturesque affectation of their predecessors and refound the poetic sincerity on a writing of the assumed factice. Breaking up with the mimesis, this very writing redefines the values of the truth as those of the laughter.