The aim of this paper is to show Lautréamont’s The Songs of Maldoror as an infernal dystopia. Throughout Bachelard’s lecture, we will stress the metamorphic schemes of aggression and violence pictured by the rapid and perpetual transformations of animal forms. In fact, Lautréamont’s poetry is aggressive and nervous. Bachelard speaks about a “projective poetry” as a psychic explosion of an over excited mind. Therefore this poetry is dynamic and primitive, because it is the expression of an original “will to live” that is a “will to attack”. So the lecture of The Songs of Maldoror teaches us how to descend to our psychic hell and to live its tensions thanks to the animal metaphors it displays.

La faune est l'enfer du psychisme: Bachelard lecteur de Lautréamont, 2013.

La faune est l'enfer du psychisme: Bachelard lecteur de Lautréamont

Boccali, Renato
2013-01-01

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show Lautréamont’s The Songs of Maldoror as an infernal dystopia. Throughout Bachelard’s lecture, we will stress the metamorphic schemes of aggression and violence pictured by the rapid and perpetual transformations of animal forms. In fact, Lautréamont’s poetry is aggressive and nervous. Bachelard speaks about a “projective poetry” as a psychic explosion of an over excited mind. Therefore this poetry is dynamic and primitive, because it is the expression of an original “will to live” that is a “will to attack”. So the lecture of The Songs of Maldoror teaches us how to descend to our psychic hell and to live its tensions thanks to the animal metaphors it displays.
French
2013
24
189
196
8
Romania
internazionale
esperti anonimi
A stampa
Settore M-FIL/04 - Estetica
Settore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria e Letterature Comparate
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