Le silence dans la poésie d’Anise Koltz: de Chants de Refus à Béni soit le Serpent

Abstract

Silence is an important part in Anise Koltz’s poetry, a Luxembourg author who writes in French and German. It belongs to the most important subject of this poetry and, at the same time, it is used by a style characterized by interruption and brevity. Owing to that, silence becomes one of the keys of this poetical universe, which goes from the subject of silence to its paradoxical use in writing. Moreover, a strong opposition is produced in it because, next to this tendency, there is another one towards the word, based on powerful reasons. To read the French poetry by Anise Koltz, since Chants de Refus to Béni soit le Serpent, which are the scope of this paper, will be richer if the reader is able to relate silence as subject to silence as use, without forgetting the strong reasons that the poetical voice has to continue speaking.