2011
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Sandie Attia, « Le prisonnier et le poète. L'écriture du Moi dans les manuscrits de la captivité de Günter Eich », Études Germaniques, ID : 10670/1.uzd0k8
Günter Eich’s manuscripts of captivity where one sees an oscillation between autobiographical subject and a lyrical subjectivity present complex modalities of representations of the Self. This article is based on unpublished manuscripts in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach. Focusing on the manuscripts of poems sketched out by Günter Eich during his captivity in Remagen American camp until their later revision and publication in the collection Abgelegene Gehöfte (1948), the article analyses the progressive evolution of a protean Self that appears sometimes like a prisoner left to his own devices, sometimes like a stylized figure of the poet. The unstable contours of this Self that is at the same time subject and object of writing become visible from the background of a new relation to empirical reality, but are also the reflection of a whole literary tradition.