Rene Char

La Parole en Archipel

Poetry exploring fragmented speech and the transformative power of words

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Rene Char

French poet and Resistance fighter whose aphoristic, hermetic verse was admired by Heidegger and Camus. Feuillets d'Hypnos, his journal of the Resistance, is one of the great documents of the period.

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