Lo statuto dell’oggetto nell’opera di Guillevic

The Dissertation studies the works of the French poet Guillevic (1907-1997), in the light of the different status that objets can assume in his texts. The problem of the objet is considered within the wider theorical question of the representation in poetry. The Dissertation examines the whole production, the main collections as well as the numerous and less known "plaquettes" published with several artists. The first part of the study, based on the referential level, analyses the autobiographical and historical origin of some objects, as well as the cases of representation able to reproduce the simultaneous richness of sensations in the reader, or, generally speaking, to create the illusion of a presence of the object. The metaphors with a descriptive function are expecially studied.Ths first part is also dedicated to a general synthesis of the complex relation that Guillevic has with matter and mechanisms of perception. The second part of the Dissertation shows how the poet often goes beyond the real data, not in order to reach a surreal dimension, but filtering reality by means of intellectual models, scientific knowledge and geometrical structures. The tendency of the poet to consider the objects in their generality, and not in their individual dimension, is also analysed thanks to some grammatical considerations. The third and last part of the study concerns a third level of distance from the reality of perception, which is the transformation of the object into a symbol, charged with abstract and complex significations.