René maran’s sentimenthèque in la vie intérieure-poèmes

Abstract

The writer René Maran (1887-1960), known for being the first black writer in metropolitan France to receive the prestigious Goncourt prize in 1921 for his novel Batouala (1921), is also the author of a valuable poetic work, but little known or forgotten. This work, contemporary with his prose, proves to be complementary and allows the broadening of the perception we can have of the author. This study seeks, by analysing the author’s sentimenthèque present in the collection of poems La vie intérieure, to reestablish the figure of the great literate and also poet who was René Maran.