11/02/2008

Claudel and Segalen: ambassador poets

Richard Sieburth in TLS
In a characteristic moment of exasperation with the state of modern culture, Paul Claudel observed, in an interview in 1925, that none of the current artistic movements in Europe had anything to offer in the way of creative innovation – “ni le dadaïsme ni le surréalisme qui ont un seul sens: pédérastique”. [...]