Pierre Reverdy et l'écriture du moi

Abstract

Pierre Reverdy has entered the literary history as the creator of «Literary Cubism», not only due to his close friendship to the painters cercle of Montmartre Bateau-Lavoir –especially Juan Gris–, but also because his innovating writing technique. Although, Reverdy's first works, composed when he just arrived to Paris, are not created following that method. His Poèmes en prose and La Lucarne ovale are a projection of his everyday experiences, as the others opuses L'Imperméable and, above all, Le Voleur de Talan. Reverdy practices an écriture du moi usually misconsidered by the critics –perhaps hidden behind the historical importance of the «cubist» Reverdy–, initially used in Les Ardoises du toit, work of 1918. It is important, so, to vindicate the value of these works not only from an aesthetic point of view, but also lyric: there took shelter the most sincere and sensitive Reverdy –the same who took shelter behind the cryptical landscape of cubist technique. This tents to realise a thematic analysis of the autobiographical weight of the mentionned works.