In Poteaux d’angle, Michaux uses fictive address to develop, fragmentarily, his own ethical propositions, using injunctions directed both at himself and at a “tu,” his double. We could call the morality that the poet sketches in an unsystematic way an experimental one. He does not want to be a poet, but neither is he here to give a course in moral thought. And yet he warns and teaches, and so does the work of a moralist by standing in opposition to established values.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-09787-7
EAN:9782406097877
ISSN: 2105-2689
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09787-7.p.0097
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 10-22-2019
Periodicity: Quarterly
Language: French
Keyword: Henri Michaux, dream, lyric subject, moralist