« La parole de l’eau » dans la poésie de Benjamin Fondane
“Water’s Voice” in the Poetry of Benjamin Fondane

Summary/Abstract: This essay focuses on the study of water metaphors in the poem Le Mal des fantômes by Benjamin Fondane, which corresponds to the second section of the homonymous collection, published for the first time in 1980. The aquatic imagery underlies the passages illustrating most clearly the pain of these phantoms, which the writer evokes through the use of a continuously reworked writing. The present analysis shows how the analogy contributes in particular to the release of this « courant » which, according to Fondane, represents the final goal of the creative process as the realisation of a different « aesthetic » but also and above all as the reproduction of a « movement of the soul ».

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