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Article Dans Une Revue Sirena: Poesía, arte y crítica Année : 2008

On Frankétienne: The Course of an Opus

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It has been more than 40 years since Frankétienne published his first collections of poems, and exactly 40 years since the first book that garnered him some critical reception, Mûr à crever, was published. 1968 was also the year in which Gallimard released the great trilogy of Marie Chauvet, Amour, colère, et folie, that simultaneously closed and opened a double trend in Haitian fiction: "return to the country" and "exile." Over the course of these years of persistent work, he published some forty volumes representing some ten thousand printed pages, becoming undoubtedly one of the most prolific Caribbean writers of the twentieth century, and one of the great figures of world literature that critics compare to James Joyce, John Dos Passos, Antonin Artaud, and François Rabelais, among others. Frankétienne's work is complex. Its "march," (to adopt one of Frankétienne's very first titles), goes from Au fil du temps (1964) to Chevaux de l'avant-jour (1967), which ends what could be called his years of apprenticeship through poetry, and gives one year later a first text mirroring a (fictional) novel, Mûr à crever, which clearly projects the spiral as a privileged form. This first text in prose, subtitled "genre total," contains the seed of all that which would develop, either manifestly or latently, in Frankétienne's later works: the enigmatic relations with the father, the ambiguous relationship with the woman, the mythic figure of the mother, the freedom of expression, the esthetic search, the artist's responsibility, and his embroilments with power, but also and above all a quest for a typo/topographic language, for a typo/ topo/poethics, which, beginning with Chevaux, attempts to integrate the image [...]
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Jean Jonassaint. On Frankétienne: The Course of an Opus. Sirena: Poesía, arte y crítica, 2008, 1, pp.112-120. ⟨hal-04036692⟩
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