“An inane and ridiculous approach.” "A well-meaning and unworthy communitarian recovery
" according to some.
Reactions "
which highlight the homophobia of some Rimbaldians
", "
a desire to hide the homosexuality of the two poets"
, according to others.
France is struggling, shaken by an unprecedented health and economic crisis, but it remains probably the only country where, despite these torments, specialists and intellectuals are tearing each other open over the entry into the Pantheon of two of the most great French poets: Rimbaud - who remains through the years an iconic figure of the revolt to which Paul Claudel or François Mauriac as well as Jack Kerouac or Patti Smith have referred -, and Verlaine.
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At the origin of this controversy revealing the ailments and fractures which cross our society, and which mixes literature and identity struggles, a petition addressed, via change.org., To the President of the Republic, so that these
“two major poets of our language"
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