The poetry of Danielle Collobert and Sophie Podolski. Between lucidity and madness, the last manifestations of modernity before suicide

Abstract

The end of the twentieth century has been marked by the failure of a critical reaso­ning ushe­red in by Enlightenment. The condemning of all ideologies has given way to widespread and generalized cynicism within a society imbued with deception. We shall first of all analyze what has caused this twilight of Modernity to later on evidence that the progressive depersonalization and un-reality, inscribed with poetry of Danielle Collobert, are the reflection of a schizoid society. As a buffer against this cynical power, Sophie Podolski adopts the insolent laugh of the fool appropriated from a Kunica tradition initiated by Diogenes and which extends to Thyl Ulenspiegel.