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© Arnaud Frich/Centre National de la Préhistoire - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
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Several tens of thousands of years separate the rock fresco of the Chauvet Cave (on the right) and the Blue Horse painted
by Franz Marc in 1911 (on the left).
The Council Held by the
Rats
, a fable by La Fontaine,
whose moral remains topical
confrontation between one’s sensitivity and a work
of art, a landscape, a moment, a person.
Nor shall progress be mentioned in literature.
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, a poem by
Ronsard, a fable from La Fontaine, or verses
by Rimbaud or Rilke, resonate within us with
the same intensity. This is what Victor Hugo
reminded us in his book
WilliamShakespeare
,
written in 1864: «
Does Shakespeare change
anything in Sophocles? […] No. Poets do not
climb over each other. The one is not the stepping
stone of the other.
” In literature, what matters are the
words, words that express, words that suggest, the power
of words that triggers emotion. There is indeed an infinity of
possibilities that move us at different scales.
.