O que há de poesia no animal: uma análise da “prosa em prosa” de Jean-Marie Gleize

Abstract

This article seeks to introduce the work of the contemporary French poet Jean-Marie Gleize, starting with theoretical assumptions that he himself proposes based on his studies of French poetry, with a focus on modern poetry. It is then analyzed what will lead him to advocate the writing of what he named “prose in prose,” based on an observation, mainly, of the Baudelairian work and the change that seemed to take place in the poet’s writing between his first book of poems, Les fleurs du mal (2016), and the second, Le spleen de Paris (2007). Making also an analysis of the figures of dogs and cats that appear differently in each of these works, Gleize proposes a vision of the “dog” linked to this “prosified” poetry, more connected to the city and to reality itself, which is the writing he defends in the face of modern life. The article will also make propositions, therefore, about an “animalistic” writing that seems to have been suggested by other writers, based on the analysis of animal studies.