
Soleil de la conscience, support viatique d’une quête identitaire et poétique
Author(s) -
Anaïs Stampfli
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
viatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2275-0827
DOI - 10.52497/viatica214
Subject(s) - conscience , humanities , poetics , poetry , consciousness , identity (music) , art , philosophy , literature , epistemology , aesthetics
In 1956, Édouard Glissant tried to overcome a feeling of illegitimacy by putting his trip to Paris into words in Sun of Consciousness. This diverse collection, composed of short texts in verse and prose, is the foundation of a poetic and identity pursuit and the expression of what he would later call the poetics of Relation: an approach consisting of putting all cultures on an equal footing. Made up of a series of questions, the collection shows the poet's perceptions of a new landscape, his journey towards knowledge and the articulation of his experience of disorientation.