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Arthur Lochmann: "Vertigo is a Rimbaldian theme"

2021-11-17T15:27:32.503Z


INTERVIEW - Carpenter, philosopher and jurist, Arthur Lochmann is also an amateur mountaineer. He publishes an essay on his experience of vertigo in high mountains. Stunning.


LE FIGARO.

- Your previous story praised "solid life", here it is that of fragile life, vertigo.

A very Rimbaldian theme ...

Arthur LOCHMANN. -

During the writing, I often found myself arriving at Rimbaldian intuitions: the vertigo is, above all, a disorder of all the senses as the poet wrote it. In the vertigo there is a disorderly synesthesia, a clash of the senses which no longer allows a structured relationship to be established with our sensitive environment. A very Rimbaldian theme, therefore, with the difference that I do not try to fix dizziness, but just touch them. I look for them and let them come when they grab me, trying to marry this encounter with the fragility that is vertigo.

Touching vertigo

is therefore a bit like the mirror, the reverse side of

La Vie Solid

, like the reflection of a mountain on the surface of a lake.

But these two books, I believe, despite somewhat symmetrically opposed words, have

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Source: lefigaro

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