I greatly appreciated the research of Jeanne-Marie Baude (1935-2014), a faithful collaborator of Mélusine as well as the activities of the URL lexicology and contemporary literary terminology. The question of morality, not only of the writer, but especially of writing, particularly concerned her, and I could only follow her regarding the surrealists. So much so that the wordplay, in the title of my communication, seemed fundamental to me in the eyes of the surrealists themselves, regarding a specific practice, too quickly abandoned. So much so that I regret today the silence made about this work, which has never been reproduced elsewhere.

Ethics and writing: proceedings of the international colloquium of Metz, May 14-15, 1993, texts collected and published by Jeanne-Marie Baude. University of Metz, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, "Michel Baude" Literature and Spirituality Research Center; Paris: Diffusion, Editions Klincksieck, 1994, 238 p.; 23 cm.

Explorer of the invisible and the unknown, the poet is led to invent, while writing, both his speech and the horizon of this speech: the modern spiritual quest does not name, at the start, the Grail it desires, since it knows neither what it is, nor even if it exists. But the poet, when he seeks to define the finality of his writing, is he not led to refer to ethical rules which govern in his own eyes the functioning and just exercise of it?

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