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In 1972, André Major and Pierre Vadeboncoeur began an epistolary dialogue that was to last over thirty years. This previously unpublished correspondence concerns, among other things, their relationship to literature. Major and Vadeboncoeur discuss their respective publications, their shared interests and their intimate relationship with writing, but also express their disagreements. From the very first letters, the reader may note that they both have a deep sense of incompleteness that can only be attenuated by creation and writing. According to André Major, writing is his essential responsibility, while Vadeboncoeur experiences a persistent and wrenching conflict between literature and political commitment.
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The relationship between “lyric” form and “comic” expression is one of the key epistemological couples used in literary criticism. While both are seen as foundational in the modern history and theory of French poetry, these terms may be less of any heuristic interest than of a commonplace conceptual association. My goal here is to critically examine some of the presuppositions that lie in the notion of “lyric” when applied to analyze the comic devices in the poem. Indeed, such an opposition involves categorizing “comic” as the marked term, while “lyric” is considered to be the unmarked term. Although the notion of “comic” opens up a new avenue for the text based on its hybrid and polyphonic forms as much as its pragmatic and aesthetic effects, the notion of “lyric” rather refers to an eclectic, ambiguous, or even stereotyped vision of poetic writing.
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