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Saisie du sensible dans les carnets de Philippe Jaccottet : Reprises et variations

 

Abstract

In his La Semaison notebooks written since the 1950s, Philippe Jaccottet is experiencing his relationship to the world through sensitive epiphanies. Writing about the Drôme landscapes, literary works, paintings, musical pieces, and more and more night dreams over the years, he cultivates his sensitive emotions. As both separate fragment and part of the notebook, the note links sensation to interpretation in a two-step process: the poet first grasps his sensitive emotion; he secondly reinterprets it at length often using analogies or reprising it later in another note. A literary published work as well as a laboratory focusing on the craft of writing, the notebook then becomes an esthetic object teeming with relations between sensation and interpretation, rhythm and space, repetition and variation, continuity and discontinuity. Since the 1990s, Jaccottet has transposed this flexible – almost musical – poetics in his poetic works like Cahier de verdure or Après beaucoup d’années.

Notes

1 Pour une analyse plus développée de l’écriture du fragment, de la note et de la notation, je renvoie le lecteur à ma thèse de doctorat inédite, Poétique du carnet d’écrivain : André du Bouchet, Philippe Jaccottet, Alice Rivaz (2007) ; (Zuchuat, Valérie. Poetics of the Notebook: André du Bouchet, Philippe Jaccottet, Alice Rivaz. Diss. Johns Hopkins U, 2007. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2008). Voir aussi Lüthi, Ariane. Pratique et poétique de la note chez Georges Perros et Philippe Jaccottet. Paris: Éditions du Sandre, 2009. 252–280, 280–302 ; et les travaux de Philippe Met, Alain Montandon, Pierre Pachet, Pascal Quignard, Daniel Sangsue, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe et Jean-Luc Nancy notamment, consacrés au fragment.

2 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “The Eolian Harp.” Poetical Works. Ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge. 1912. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1983. 100–102.

3 Il s’agit probablement de la Fantaisie pour orgue en la mineur BWV 561, dont l’origine fait débat et qui « serait le fait d’un élève […] » (Cantagrel 62).

4 « Le reproche principal qui est fait aux figurations analogiques, c’est de nous éloigner de la chose visée, de trahir la précision référentielle de l’objet. Au lieu de l’approfondir en lui-même, l’analogie propose un glissement imaginaire vers un autre objet qui nous distrait du premier » (Jenny, “La Poésie”).

5 Cf. Observations 1951–1956 dans la Pléiade.

6 Voir notamment l’intertexte qu’en propose Danièle Cohn dans un lien au juste et au vrai (27).

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Valérie Zuchuat

Valérie Zuchuat (Ph.D. in French Literature) is Lecturer in French at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her main research interests include modern French poetry, Swiss French Literature, poetics of the notebook, literature’s relation to arts, as well as Entre-deux langues writers. She has published articles on Philippe Jaccottet, Jean Bazaine, Swiss French poets, and Marguerite de Navarre in Europe, French Forum, and Equinoxes.

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