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France Burghelle Rey
France Burghelle Rey, born in Paris, is a poet, novelist, and literary critic. She is a member of the Association of Friends of Jean Cocteau. Influenced by his work and personality, she completed her master's degree on The Visible and the Invisible in the poet's work, then her postgraduate degree on the modern theory of creation, then preparing a doctoral thesis on "the Baroque and symbolism" in Against the Grain, by Joris-Karl Huysmans. The collection Les Promesses du chant has just been published by La Rumeur libre. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Burghelle_Rey
This sensitive text, The House Far from the Sea, Fragments I, is intended to be intimate, even confidential, in the discontinuity of memories, with the interesting bias of alternating prose and poems. Poetry-journal? Let us specify a timeless reconstruction based on the founding experiences of childhood and youth. Writing imposes itself in this text as self-repair, of intimate wounds: "At his house I am windowless, prisoner of the air..." "we will remain twins" "Amputated from myself"... And this astonishment, like an inner tear: "Here, for the first time, I am writing a book in the feminine..." A trauma barely mentioned, but which seems an essential biographical landmark: "Beautiful cousin whom I loved so much / I called her my daughter"... Self-censorship? Extreme modesty? The kinship with the writer Colette is imposed: attachment to the land, to the childhood home, to the first garden... like a go-between land. Writing is "the place of repetition, of stuttering" for France Burghelle Rey which means that "the poetae is a daily gleaner" (from Fernando Pessoa to Agnès Varda!) Psychoanalytic work on oneself or self-writing as a revealer of what happens (Jacques Ancet), of what is repressed, etc., runs through the work of France Burghelle Rey: an autobiopoetry she writes. Publication date: June 1, 2021 Order
