Hans Faverey : le poète de la suppression

Abstract

Hans Faverey’s literary legacy consists of thousands of pages filled with versions of his published poems, apparently finished poems he never published, and drafts. They probably remained unpublished because he intended to publish cycles rather than individual poems. They contained too many of the words or phrases he had used in previously published poems, they were too personal or too concrete, or had too many connotations. Variations of poems Faverey eventually published were initially rejected partly for the same reasons: too personal, too many connotations, too abstract, or because he did not like certain words, their musicality or their rhythm. I prove these conclusions by analysing his poem “Rotslandschap met scheepstakelage” (“Rocky Landscape with Ship’s Rigging”).