“Mon frère en poésie”: Айги глазами Леона Робеля, друга, переводчика, исследователя, поэта

Abstract

The article assesses the contribution of Léon Robel, Aigi's friend and biographer, to the study of the poet's works. Special attention is paid to the influence of Aigi on the poetry of Robel himself, particularly on his “Aigiist” poems-dedications. Comparative text analysis reveals some similarities between the two authors. Robel “mirrors” the main constructive principle formulated by Aigi in his poetry. The specific use of punctuation marks and spaces allows the poet to create verbal conglomerates which, like combinations of hieroglyphs, denote a new subject or a new sensory experience. The poet conceives verbal masses as the world thrown into textual space, now expanding, then contracting. Intertextual analysis reveals a significant thematic dialogue between the two poets.