Gerard Mac é , as far as I can tell, is an unknown in the Anglophone world. He is, on the other hand, revered in French literary circles. In France, there is a certain line of poetics that goes from the French moraliste tradition through prose poetry into an expanded field of the aphorism – the aphorism as insight and lyric – which doesn’t quite have an equivalent in the Anglosphere. Thus, a poet like Georges Perros, whose series Papiers coll é es is one of the important twentieth century texts, was not translated, and then in a selection, into English until 2021 - https://www.seagullbooks.org/paper-collage/ . I prefer Mac é to Perros, but both writers are best understood against the background of the moraliste tradition. It is a tradition which was seized and remade by Nietzsche in the 19 th century, The poetics of Emerson and Thoreau are both recognizably shaped by the moralistes of the 17 th century, plus of course the enormous weight of the sermon. I came across this b
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