Poetry
L'Expérience continue
Not translated into English
Paul Nougé · 1966
Synopsis
The collection of Paul Nougé's poetic writings, gathered by Marcel Mariën: poems, short narratives and aphorisms written over several decades, visual poems whose letters are read from top to bottom, postcards, “poetic equations and formulas”, poems intended for the composer André Souris, and even the erotic narrative Georgette given in full, over four hundred pages. The whole seeks less the expression of the self than revolt against the established order of things and words.
Context
The volume appeared in 1966 from the publishing house of the journal Les Lèvres nues, which the author had founded with Marcel Mariën and Jane Graverol, and which had published texts by Guy Debord in 1956. Mariën had already gathered his friend's theoretical writings ten years earlier; according to Robert Wangermée, he collected these under Nougé's supervision, though Nougé excluded the poems to Éthéry, which were published after his death. The book was reissued in Lausanne in 1981.
Who it is for
Often very short texts, written in French, to be read in fragments rather than in one sitting; no translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as one of its author's main works, along with the volume of his theoretical writings.
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