Un chant « pour les voyous virés de la Sorbonne » :la poéticité maudite des chansons d’Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine

Abstract

Claiming to “play for the thugs fired from the Sorbonne” and defined as a poet from the early beginning of his career by the media, the contemporary singer-songwriter Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine has been blurring the porous line between song and poetry for more than forty years and nearly two hundred songs.This contribution will focus on some of the poetic aspect of Thiéfaine’s work which is to be studied as a literary piece. I will thus develop how lexical creations are conspicuous of his songs and how the eighteen albums display a collection of images related to Surrealism. I will moreover underline how much this poetic dimension is rooted in the reappropriation of the cursed poet myth and in its intertextuality with the cursed tutelary figures.

Keywords

• poetry
• Thiéfaine (Hubert-Félix)
• song
• cursed poet