At the time of the publication, in 1975, of his long, seven-part free verse poem,
Dans le leurre du seuil, Yves Bonnefoy had already offered us Surrealist texts such as the
Traité du pianiste(1946) and
Anti-Platon(1947), the considerable poems of
Du mouvement et de l’immobilité de Douve(1953), the dense, even deeply enigmatic pages of
Hier régnant désert(1958), and the emerging self-clarifications of
Pierre écrite(1965). This self-questioning poetic production was in addition to, but in intellectual and spiritual harmony with, an array of articles and books that range from the essays of
L’improbable(1959) with its determining
Tombeaux de Ravenne, the telling
Rimbaud par lui-même(1960) that Breton deemed the event of the year, the further essays of
Un rêve fait à Mantoue…
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Citation: Bishop, Michael. "Dans le leurre de seuil". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 November 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=25262, accessed 21 November 2024.]
