Abstract

From an approach through disengagement, disjunction, disarticulation, or even suspension, interruption, a crisis point, this paper intends to articulate common principles that appear in theories about love, about time and about verse. Is it possible to associate the reading of verse as a “coup”, from Un coup de dés, by Mallarmé, to Jacques Lacan's reading of love in Encore? Could we read the leap in the verse like Benjamin’s angel of history, who is propelled forward but turns back, staring at the catastrophe? Is going to the verse like going to time in its crisis, in its fracture, in its disjunction, as thought by Agamben, Benjamin, Derrida? These are the directions in which this article proposes to read, in the disjunctive gesture of verse, eroticism and mourning, love and catastrophe.

Keywords:
Verse; Poetry; Love; Catastrophe