« Celui qui dit la vérité / est lui-même Crétois ». Hans Faverey et la vérité

Abstract

Even though Hans Faverey was obviously familiar with deconstructivism and post-structuralism (Derrida), their significance must be put into perspective: Faverey did not renounce the claim to truth in favor of intertextual play, but he emphasised the paradoxical nature of truth. In this respect, he is closer to Lacan than to Derrida, even if Lacan was probably not a source of inspiration for him. Faverey’s concept of truth goes back to the tradition of Modernism, with its impossible attempt to describe in language what it irrevocably lacks. He found the material for his poetic project in textual sources where paradoxes abound.