Bernard Noël: bolest jezika i tijelo
Bernard Noël: Disease of the Language and the Body

Summary/Abstract: Bernard Noël, one of the last writers subjected to censorship in France, coined the notion of sensure as an abuse of language in political or commercial views. This manipulation, along with some others (“mental castration”) brings about a “deprivation of meaning”, thus producing a disease of the language. For Noël, poetry has the possibility of resisting this malady, through the incarnation of speech and linguistic invention by restoring meaning to a language that is completely deprived of it. This article aims to examine how the question of meaning is expressed in Noël’s rethinking of the body, particularly in his poetry. We thus analyse his many political and aesthetic ideas, along with examples taken from his books of poetry Extraits du corps and La Chute des temps.

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