Rene Char

Le Marteau sans Maitre

Poetry exploring fragmentation, resistance, and the power of language

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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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