Roland Giguère and Poetic Landscape - La main au feu

KIM YONG HYUN

doi:10.21049/ccs.2015.39..153

Cross-Cultural Studies

2015, 39(), pp.153-176
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2015.39..153
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature

KIM YONG HYUN ¹

¹아주대학교

ABSTRACT

Poet, painter and publisher, Roland Giguère is one of Quebec's outstanding figures, inspired by both Surrealism and Quebec nationalism. He participated in contemporary artistic movement 'Phases' and influenced collective self-awareness and political ferment, 'Quiet Revolution'. In La Main au feu(1973), his poetry represent a landscape dominated by darkness in contrast with red color of fire from the volcanic crater. The world is immersed in darkness of despair which allude to the Great Darkness of Quebec society. Acts of violence assume many different forms: crows, black rain, dark flow, frenzy of knife blows. Both things and humans are in the state of absence or lack. Life falls into opacity of death. In the background of dark landscape, we discover Miror, a singular character. Similar to chain of mountains and to bare forest, he is a creature that shape the tragic inner world of poet. He is as like as seismograph that record the tremble of being. Finally, in order to fight the darkness of environment, the poet attempt to use the power of fire of volcanoes. The flow of magma become paintings of his dream and the flame of eruption, poetry of cry toward the sky. 'La main au feu' means the will to resist injustice and repression in the world. The tragic reality is replaced by a dream that become second reality out of reach of the force of hostile external circumstances.
KEYWORDS

Roland Giguère, landscape, darkness, Miror, fire
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