Abstract
The imbrication of art and literature in France is a phenomenon that, while by no means unique to that country, is deeply rooted in its cultural soil and has flourished perhaps most spectacularly in the modern period. From Baudelaire and Gautier to Apollinaire, Reverdy, and Breton the groundwork for a special intimacy was laid with a meticulous lucidity and a continuing passion that lack all element of gratuitousness or pure academicism. Since the Second World War many writers, and especially poets such as Francis Ponge, Andre Fr6naud, Henri Michaux, Yves Bonnefoy, Ren6 Char, Bernard No6l, and Jacques Dupin have in varying ways shown their fascination with art, with its problematic as well as its salutary powers, and have often attempted to limn not only the underlying aesthetic logic of this fascination, but also, over and above the difference in formal means available to art and writing, their crucial relevance of endeavor.
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