Char, Michaux and the questions of poetry

Abstract

According to Jacques Rancière, the literature interferes in the construction of the sensitive look on reality contributing to the constant rearrangement of the social game. The poets René Char and Henri Michaux went through a time of intense transformations in the social field, however, his works point to less explicit paths of action, which allows us to formulate new hypotheses about the means that literature has to mediate man’s gaze on the world. Following these clues, this article intends to investigate in what way the writing of these poets contributes to a literature that builds paths of political and social intervention.