Abstract
Beyond the documentary aspect, remarked in previous studies, of the 1925 collection of prose poems by Pierre Mac Orlan, Boutiques, on commercial life in popular quarters of Paris, is the question of a false and its place in the real. The false appears in identity, language, social class, love, storefronts and everyday objects, such as the unpaid “laissé-pour-compte” trousers that have become baggy pants on the tailor. Cinema and photography dispute superiority in the production of images in the poem “Enseignes”, where the modern real and false converge. The discussion of the prose poems includes Lucien Boucher’s illustrations from the first edition of Boutiques, which accentuate, at times, the false expressed in the poems.
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