L'argument du rêve, Muriel Pic

The Argument of the Dream is a collection of documentary poems or essay-poems that, in three parts, address the question of the body. Between the intimate and the political, the biological body and the social body, the poems testify to how ideologies condition us and how bodies are possessed by orders.

Each time, the images offer the reader a temporal journey and a confrontation with the facts that give voice. It aims to elicit active participation from the reader by raising questions, given that the real question of this volume, whose ambition is also didactic, can be formulated as follows: how do we look at the victims? And, conversely, from the traces: how do they look at us? The kamikazes of Okinawa, the naturists of Orplid, the migrants as well as the hermits of the Dodecanese are human documents. Some are caught in the Pacific War and military ideology, others in an ideology of returning to nature, whose utopia has inspired much opportunism, and the last ones in a catastrophe, whose vision oscillates here between religious myth and the migratory reality of the third millennium.

Each poem is narrated by a sister voice, transported by the dream to the events and to us, collecting fragments of words and images. They are ghosts of astonishment, benevolent presences that encourage us to walk among the pulverized bodies: the Japanese poetess Sei Shônagon, the German poetess Annette von Droste-Hülsshof, the poets Robert Lax and Loránd Gáspár, who also lend their photographs, with the last section of the collection leading to the contemporary."
 

Editions Macula, 2016
Text in French
Soft cover
20 x 12 cm
92 pages
ISBN: 978-2-88955-059-3