The Minimal Text of Edgar Allan Poe’s Raven

Symposium 1 (1):17-23 (1997)
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We enter the room of Poe’s midnight reader and witness the uncanny visit of the raven. We begin to notice that the repetition of the word ‘nevermore’ is strange in that it seems to carry within it despair, as well as a promise. And so we listen carefully and begin to read a dissemination of this single word, a word that takes us on an unforgettable journey. But to do so we must disseminate ourselves so that we can remain with our reader while flying with the raven toward the disseminating sounds within the word: ‘evermore’, ‘more’, ‘or’. Our raven guide leads us toward wonders beyond imagination: toward other ravens flying with coded messages, toward an apocalyptic sunrise where we think that we perhaps saw the lost Lenore. But we return to the midnight study, knowing that we will see her ‘nevermore ’.Nous pénétrons le cabinet du lecteur de minuit imaginé par Poe et sommes témoins de I’inquiétante visite du corbeau. Nous sommes frappés par I’étrangeté du mot «nevermore», «plus jamais», qui traîne avec lui désespoir et promesse. Nous prêtons alors une oreille attentive et entreprenons la dissémination de ce mot qui nous conduira à une dissémination de nous-mêmes. Portés par le jeu des sonorités, nous nous envolons vers des mondes fantastiques dans lesquels se retrouvent d’autres corbeaux portant des messages codés, où point une aube apocalyptique où nous croyons avoir perçu Lenore. Mais nous devons retourner au cabinet, sachant que nous ne la reverrons «plus jamais».

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