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Pour un tombeau de Merlin: Du barde celte à la poésie moderne

YVES VADÉ, Pour un tombeau de Merlin: Du barde celte à la poésie moderne. Paris: José Corti, 2008. Pp. 304. isbn: 2714309666. [euro] 22.00.

Yves Vadé has chosen to resurrect the Renaissance tradition of the 'tombeau,' a literary homage to a late figure-in this case, somewhat paradoxically, Merlin, whose survival is in fact averred by Vadé's detailed and clever analysis. The study, informed by mythological and anthropological readings of the Merlin corpus, guides the reader from the 'birth' of the eponym character to his most recent reincarnations in modern French poetry. Lautréamont's Maldoror appears as an echo of Merlin, as does, of course, Apollinaire's 'Enchanteur pourrissant,' ...

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