Poétique de la relation

Abstract

The concept of the “Poetics of Relation” as defined by the Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant seemed to entertain echoes and resonances with the work of the Lebanese novelist and essayist Amin Maalouf. Such an approach may seem biased with respect to geographical, cultural and poetic differences between the two works. But such a reading also seemed to us to be consistent with the sense of a journey, of an itinerary and of a crossing at the heart of the thinking of the Relation which, as Edouard Glissant writes, “links (relays) relates”. The reading of this contribution is conceived here as a meeting place that convenes two thoughts and two imaginary and seeks to build relationships between them.

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