Le Vice de la joie

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Poetry
For all audiences aged 16 and over
"We've all been desperately searching for a definition of poetry, one that is, if not peremptory, at least enlightening, and now a 95-year-old woman who has never published a single poem has come up with one of the most beautiful: the eroticism of living. Alice Mendelson's collection is a dazzling manifesto of poetry as an act of life, that is to say, as an act of love, insolent, joyful, without renunciation. (...) This passionate song of the carnal body to body, proclaimed in a full voice, without apology or pretense, is the metonymy of a generalised eroticisation of life, of the relationship with beings and things (...) above all, it is a choice and a courage, an affirmation of the "vice of joy" despite and against all the denials of existence. (...)

Yes, only love and poetry - these unquenchable thirsts for the great real - can preserve the meaning of life against all odds" Jean-Pierre Siméon - extract from the preface