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Cerner le réel

Cerner le réel

Christian Prigent à l'œuvre

Preface by Michel Surya

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Grasping reality
Christian Prigent at work

Christian Prigent's books are all fuelled by a drive to grasp a reality that stands firm against the so-called reality of any depiction that claims to reflect it. No matter the genre, this series of books is subjective in terms of the piece, meaning it constantly looks into itself, questions and experiments with forms, tests ideas and hones in on the singularity of feeling. All this against the backdrop of a political story which it always wants to have a hold on so as to better commit to it and commit literature with it. Expressing speech and emotion, text and image and the question of the moral and political responsibility of those who want to produce literature are some of the central themes that this study shall address as it explores the career of a writer who has been writing one of the most prolific pieces of contemporary French literature for almost fifty years. Christian Prigent was awarded the 2018 Poetry Grand Prix from the Académie Française.