This article traces a poetic and esthetic lineage from 19thC French Modernism up to the Beat movement in the United States. In it, we take an oblique approach into a corpus of interviews and writings by the poet Allen Ginsberg, who sees in French modernists an important precursor of the writers of the Beat Generation, and we show ultimately the singular influence and impact of French Modernism on the creative experimentation which was at the heart of the Beat aesthetic.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques