André Velter : « habiter cavalièrement le monde… »

The article re-opens the Holderlinian issue of inhabiting as a poet in Andre Velter's work which itself rests upon Arthur Rimbaud's work (“poet(s) and explorer(s”). In both cases, the problem of a life-work is being considered as well as the consubstantial question of inscription, in the core of the world as well as in what is most intimate in a subject experiencing it. A theory of the trace can then be sketched. As far as writing is concerned, the trace is not what remains, as vestige or trophy, a tangible relic or reminder that the passing occurred, that the journey happened, and that the imprint or final mark of a result have been preserved. For Velter, the poem is that which leaves no trace of this sort but dedicates itself wholly and exclusively to its own foreshadowing. Here, to write, in the sense of to trace, is to make possible what yet will never be accomplished; to remain in the constant becoming that constitutes its strength; to remain with the powerful desire of having to try the adventure ag...