Ostium (Sep 2018)
La poésie d’inspiration marxiste dans l’œuvre poétique d’Aimé Césaire (Marxism-inspired poetry in Aimé Césaireʼs poetic work)
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine Césaireʼs dismissed poems, written between 1948 and 1950, the time when “Mandela of the Caribbean” was a convinced communist. Firstly, we observe conditions of his membership in PCF and the role he played in the most communist party in the West. Secondly, we will try to explain how the influence of “socialist realism” is being manifested in his seven Stalinist poems, both in their genesis and their expression. Eventually, on the basis of the works of renowned Caesarists, we shall evoke his disagreement on national poetry with Aragon, the forerunner of his brilliant resignation in 1956, and highlight the circumstances which led him not only to leave the Party, but also to disavow his Communist-Leninist-inspired pieces of his complete works edition.
