Le Paysage comme aire transitionnelle dans l’œuvre de Philippe Jaccottet

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe landscape is a point of passage between the self and the world, the interior and the exterior, the near and the distant, the real and the imaginary: as such, it has become a privileged theme for the field of poetry aiming to reach the world in spite of the distance separating words and things. This paradoxical relationship is particularly inscribed in the motif of the horizon, defining the landscape while remaining unattainable: it serves as a threshold between here and elsewhere, the earth and the sky, the visible and the invisible. The interchanges that take place in this virtual space are at the very core of landscape poetics, especially prevalent in French and Francophone poetry since the Second World War: I will examine its historical, artistic, and literary implications. I will study the dynamics and aporias in Philippe Jaccottet's work, where images of the threshold, the door, and passage are recurring.