Jean-Paul Michel, Je ne voudrais rien qui mente, dans un livre [I would not wish anything that lies, in a book]

Michael Bishop (Dalhousie University)

Ed. by Hugo Azerad, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2010

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poetry (any)

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In 2010 the Éditions Flammarion published a book that gathered together three suites of poems by a poet recently widely hailed as having offered a reinvigoration, a powerfully uplifting yet lucid energy thought by some to be urgently needed in a genre – if poetry can, rather idly, be deemed such – often dominated by melancholia or a certain self-undermining scepticism: Jean-Paul Michel’s

Je ne voudrais rien qui mente, dans un livre

. The first suite, “

Le Héros veut

battre

la douleur

” (The Hero seeks to

beat

pain) offers two series of theatricised, dialogued

feuillets

or folios written in 1978-81 but never previously published. It is followed by an equally unpublished series of five

cahiers

or notebooks,

Rappel à l’ordre à Ferrare

(

Call to Order in Ferrara

), written in…

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Citation: Bishop, Michael. "Je ne voudrais rien qui mente, dans un livre". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 February 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34886, accessed 21 November 2024.]

Jean-Paul Michel, Je ne voudrais rien qui mente, dans un livre [I would not wish anything that lies, in a book]

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