In Esther Tellermann: Enigma, Prayer, Identity, the first book-length study of the writerâs Åuvre, Aaron Prevots highlights her innovative poetic approach to inner and outer realities. He shows how Tellermann (1947-) explores the worldâs innermost structures, its textures and contours, its indeterminate places that seemingly intersect, and dreams and myth as springboards for experiencing anew historical turning points and timeless rites of mourning. He considers the enigmatic quality of long suites of poetic song whose form can resemble that of prayer, as well as the stakes regarding identity when poetic expression foregrounds openness to the Other. In examining texts from 1999-2019, Aaron Prevots emphasizes this major poetâs decentered lyricism and the presence of fellow writers as interlocutors.
All interested in contemporary French poetry, and anyone studying alterity and intersubjectivity, dreams and myth, literature and the unconscious, loss and mourning, remembrance and forgetting, or rites and prayer