Empreintes du désir dans le poème d'Espriu
The poet Salvador Espriu (1913-1985) is the author of a body of work that meditates on absence. His long composite poem, written over several decades suggests the inscription of the poem as a singular expression in the horizon of the work seen as a spiritual itinerary. Espriu’s poem is haunted by the possibility of grasping, through language, what is not available to the senses. So as to understand this articulation of the sensible (poem, language, presence) and the suprasensible (poetry, the work, absence), I call on the notion of desire, considered both as a fundamental drive of the literary and as a representation of figurative discourse. In order to strip this desire of the metaphors that correspond to the theme of love, and to extract the shape of an impulse I pass through archive of representations of Eros in texts from the European literary tradition (Plato, Apuleius, Dante, Llull), before questioning the desire at work in Salvador Espriu’s poetics, this desire which delves in the images of death, the words of the Catalan language and literary and religious inscriptions, using them as a support to access what is beyond them.
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