RENE CHAR AND THE POETRY OF THE FRENCH SURREALISM

Abstract

The article is devoted to the works of representatives of French surrealism (A. Breton, A. Arto, R. Desnos, R. Char, etc.) The article deals with the philosophy of the current course, analyzes the linguistic peculiarities of poetics, as well as the use of artistic and aesthetic and stylistic techniques such as "automatic writing", "metaphor", "verbal game" inherent in surrealist poets. Special attention was paid to one of the prominent French poets Rene Char whose poetry is characterized by complex imagery, irregular rhyming and fine work with rhythm. All of his lyrics, both pre-war and later years, are a pursuit of the unusual and inexpressible. The poet tries with the help of fantasy to transform these or other real phenomena into images that are unexpected, grotesque, incomprehensible. R.Char was a master of poetic brevity, which he achieved by the use of the ellipse, the aphorism, the terse image, and the “heraclitic” phrase, the merging of contradictory ideas. He doesn’t just connect abstract senses with abstract ones or actual with actual, he combines the concepts which seem to be irreconcilable at first sigh. The result is a poetry (including prose poems) that is austere, dense, and somewhat difficult. All his poems are united by rhythm, brevity and semantic isolation. When you look at the poetry of Rene Char, it seems that the poet who wants to get to the point, to some "universality", a poet who tries to tell reader about the found, to tell using the word carefully polished. Impressions received from the outside world lose in Char their sensual concreteness and, fancifully connecting with each other, give as a result random images that reflect only the highly subjective associations of the poet.