Pierrine Poget et les fondations de l’écriture

Abstract

This article focuses on Fondations (2017) and Warda s’en va (2021) by Pierrine Poget. It shows how the reparation of intimate wounds and the discourse on the world are both played and thwarted, pointing to a re-“foundation” of the autonomy of literature and to the modesty of Poget’s discourse on it. Several recent essays on contemporary literature and its ability to repair the world after giving up its self-referentiality (Gefen), to borrow the discourses and methods of knowledge (Demanze ), and to simply exist (Faerber) are mobilized to examine Poget’s work. This article favors the perspective of Jenny according to which literature speaks “of what is part of our personal experience without finding to be symbolized by any established knowledge”. 

Keywords: Poget, Fondations, Warda, literature, contemporary.