Valérys Namen: Der Status des Lesers in derpoésie pure
Abstract
Valéry’s dream of the creation of a poésie pure is determined by afundamental tension between two contradictory aspirations. On the one hand,he inherits French rationalism when he tries to develop a poetical praxis basedon a logical-mathematical calculus, in which anything vague and unclear shoulddisappear. On the other hand, this strictly formalized language revolves aroundthe notion of moi pur and therefore subscribes to a hypertrophied subjectivism.The paradoxical logic of personal pronouns described by Émile Benveniste is atthe origin of Valéry’s project: The moi pur is both, the personal pronoun thatidentifies the concrete speaker and the structural function of the universalinvariant. Ineluctably affected by this pronominal shifting, the reader is, aboveall, at stake in the poéésie pure. In an attempt to unfold the aporetical constructionsresulting from this paradox, this textual analysis focuses on some of themain rhetorical figures of Valpoéry’s work. A close reading of Narcisse parle revealsthe specific moments of permanent self-variation by which the popoésie pureconstantly subverts itself. Poeisis resists any kind of rigid formalism, any subjugationof its rhetorical potential and any attempt to escape the ever-sliding senseof the metaphor. We can thus affirm that the aporias revealed by the popoésie pureevidence hence the conditions of poetical representation itself.
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