Jacques Prévert: a poetry that drinks the wine of days and mocks presumptuous words. A poetry that is "at the same time the daughter and lover of the event," wrote Georges Bataille. With shortcuts likely to "give us back in a flash all the sensitive, radiant approach of childhood, and to indefinitely provide the reservoir of revolt," added André Breton. A durably popular poetry, with its facilities sometimes, but above all with its genius. In the end, a wonderful festive alchemy. His humor has not dulled. It has lost none of its colors. In this issue of 'Europe' you will find the entire Prévert rainbow deployed: the poet, of course, but also the man of the October Group, the author of films, collages, songs.

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Article appearing in: Henri Béhar, Essay on Cultural Analysis of Texts, Classiques Garnier, 2022, pp. 81-90. Collection: Theory of Literature, n° 24

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