L'univers poétique de René Guy Cadou

Rene guy cadou's poetical universe

• Auteur / Autrice : Christian Moncelet
• Direction : Paul Viallaneix
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Littérature française
• Date : Soutenance en 1988
• Etablissement(s) : Clermont-Ferrand 2

Mots clés

Mots clés contrôlés

Livres et lecture

Cadou, René Guy (1920-1951)

Culture populaire

Dans la littérature

Peuple

Thèmes, motifs

France -- 1945-....

France -- 1914-1940

Littérature et société

Poésie populaire française

France -- 20e siècle

Influence

France -- 19e siècle

Littérature populaire française

Résumé

"poesie la vie entiere", "la vie revee" : deux expressions de cadou qui invitent a explorer son univers poetique en tenant compte de sa biographie, de son profil d'ame et de son esthetique. Naissance et maturite d'un poete mort jeune, destinee d'un homme provincial par vocation, vie blessee d'epreuves et de deuils, parcours irradie d'amour : autant de themes abordes chronologiquement dans vie et passion de rene guy cadou, paru en 1975 aux editions bof. Dans les liens de ce monde (champ vallon, 1982), l'articulation de l'ecrit et du referent spatio-temporel est analysee sous la notion de "realyrisme" et s'integre dans la problematique generale de l'interdependance. Il importe a cadou d'abolir les frontieres, de vivre, dans les mots, des relations multiples entre les regnes, entre les etres, entre le midi et les autres, voire entre le lyrisme et l'humour. La vertu de communication et la fertilite des echanges s'affirment comme une valeur primordiale a travers une thematique tant spatiale (les portes, les fenetres) que verbale (les fonctions du langage, la dynamique comblee des questions et des reponses. . . ). Anti-narcisse, cadou incarne un orphisme genereux, doucement panique, dont la femme, les enfants et des animaux privilegies sont les figures actives. Valeur supreme, l'amour exige une transparence quasi mystique. Homme de toutes les fidelites, le poete a grandi dans son terreau geographique, social et verbal. Issu du peuple, il n'a cesse de temoigner de cette appartenance. L'etude inedite, la poesie et le peuple, montre que cadou fut un conciliateur exemplaire. S'il gouta le populisme (romanesque ou poetique), il se montra aussi friand de culture populaire, litteraire ou paralitteraire. "ecolier de rochefort" ou seul, il s'est "engage", a sa maniere, en s'adressant a tous

"poetry as the whole of life" life as a dream" are two phrases of cadou that invite us to explore his poetical universe taking into account his biography, the slant of his soul and his aesthetics. The birth and maturity of a poet who died when young, the destiny of a man who chose to be a provincial, a life injured by trials ans bereavements, love radiating all along on that journey, are as many themes chronologically dealt with in rene guy cadou's life and passion, published by bof in 1975. In the bonds in this world (champ vallon, 1982), the connection of what is written with the spatio-temporal referent is analysed under the notion of "realyricism" and is integrated in the general problematics of interdependence. It is important for cadou to abolish the borders, to live through words the multiple relations between the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms, between the beings, the ego and the others, even between lyricism and humour. The virtue of communication and the fertility of exchange asserts itself as a fundamental value through a set of themas which can be as well spatial (doors, windows) as verbal (the functions of language, the fulfilled dynamics of questions ans answers). An anti-narcissus, cadou incarnates a generous orphism, softy "panic" (cf. Pan) in which the whoman, children and privileged animals are active figures. As a supreme value love demands a quasi mystical transparency. An ever-faithful man, the poet grew up out of his geographical, social and verbal fertilizing soil. He was born of the ordinary people and never stopped testifying to that belonging. The unpublished story poetry and the people shows that cadou was an exemplary conciliator. If he enjoyed populism (in novels or poetry) he also showed he was fond of popular, literary or paraliterary, culture. A member of the rochefort school or by himself, he committed himself in his own way by addressing everybody