Resumen de L'esprit documentaire
The works of Jacques Jouet, poet, essay writer, novelist and playwright, member of the Oulipo literary project, show his interest for documents and the ways they can be appropriated by literature. L'Histoire poèmes thus constitutes a collection of « documented » poems each of which evokes a specific historical moment whose source is explicitly given. Jouet analyses here the relationship literature and his own work as a writer have with documentary sources, and submits an unpublished extract from a « documented » work in progress.
