The vampire and the poet’s struggle Reflective texts: Le Vampire dans la poésie française by Giovanni Dotoli and Mario Selvaggio

Giovanni Dotoli and Mario Selvaggio, in their anthology Le Vampire dans la poésie française, explore the modulations of the theme in French poetry. Indeed, the vampire is a figure of otherness. How to explain this constant presence in all times? It is a matter of choosing a path of writing in the sublime darkness, like Baudelaire. The poet is dead and alive. He is a ghost. He is a specter through the world, a victim of eternal boredom, of passing Time.