Départ et destination
Departure and Destination
The journey is always on progress at Voronca, Fondane, and Michaux. They assume their status of passengers, of great explorers of the universe, but there is no finish line, there are constraints that they fled or dreams in which they let themselves be overcome. The travel as final approach remains unfulfilled. It is exactly this aspect that makes it more interesting and forces it to constantly keep this tragic side. By the choice of departure the abandon is immediately chosen. Each trip leaves traces in us, but also in the world. It still binds the others as they can more or less get close and continue this journey, sometimes without even looking back. Memory becomes an accessory point sine qua non of the traveler – it cannot be sincere and it almost never fails to recognize the abandon.
Keywords: Henri Michaux, Benjamin Fondane, Ilarie Voronca, image, voyage
- Ilarie Voronca, Poèmes choisis / Selected Poems,
Seghers, Paris, 1967, p. 7. - Ilarie Voronca, Ulysse dans la cité / Ulyysses in the city
[1933], Le Temps des Cerises, Les Amis de Roger
Vailland, 1999, p. 37. - Ilarie Voronca, Poèmes parmi les hommes / Poems among
People [1934], Editions des Cahiers du «Journal des
poètes», 1934, p. 38. - Benjamin Fondane, Le Mal des fantômes / The Evil of
Phantoms, Paris-Méditerranée et L’Ether Vague-Patrice
Thierry, 1996, p. 97. - Henri Michaux, OEuvres complètes / Complete Works,
vol. II, Gallimard, 2001, p. 345. - Passages et langages de Henri Michaux / Passages and
Languages of Henri Michaux, textes réunis et présentés
par Jean-Claude Mathieu et Michel Collot, José Corti
1987, p. 86. - Alphonse de Lamartine, Souvenirs, impressions, pensées
et paysages, pendant une voyage en Orient / Memories,
impressions, thoughts, and landscapes during a voyage in East
(1832-1833), Gosselin, 1835, p. 93.
Gaston Bachelard, L’Eau et les rêves / Water and
Dreams, José Corti, 1942, p. 102.
