Terror at work - Theory, poetics and ethics in Jean Paulhan

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Introduction

The horizon of the common place
A broken allegory
From one terror to another
Terror at work

Chapter 1. “It’s a little dry. »

Method, poetry and excess

Key of the key
Dry cleaning
“Orpaillargues”: rites of the text and reading myths
An event in the text
Powder (gold) in the eyes
The misunderstanding
The violence of the referent

Chapter 2. Patient works

Experience and story of the event

The habit of the event
The Light and the Dark
Take/Write the event “in the act”
The experience of the common place
A few snippets

Chapter 3. Spectra of painting

Paulhan (and Ponge) facing Braque and Fautrier

Story of a meeting
Beyond the resemblance: the familiar specter
The fear of the common
A ghost: beauty
Time for recognition

Chapter 4. “Those who were silent”

Literature kept secret

Bear witness to the secret
“I would like to tell the truth”
The figure of the secret or the gift of the dead
The secret of History?
Epilogue

Bibliography

Writings of Jean Paulhan
Correspondence
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