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Pierre Alferi's Poetic Exploration of Contemporary Reality

publication · 2026-04-23

Pascale Cassagnau analyzes Pierre Alferi's poetry collection 'Le Chemin familier du poisson combatif' through extensive quotations. Alferi's texts blend poetry and narrative to construct a phenomenology of contemporary reality, organizing everyday life motifs asymptotically and dedicating writing to exploring the black holes of reality and language.

Key facts

  • Pascale Cassagnau explores Pierre Alferi's poetry collection 'Le Chemin familier du poisson combatif'.
  • The analysis uses long quotations from the collection.
  • Alferi's texts are between poem and narrative.
  • They elaborate a phenomenology of contemporary reality.
  • Motifs of daily life are organized on the mode of the asymptote.
  • Writing is devoted to exploring black holes of reality and language.
  • The collection was published by Pierre Alferi.
  • The article appears in artpress, February 1994.

Entities

Artists

  • Pierre Alferi
  • Pascale Cassagnau

Institutions

  • artpress

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