/lit/ - Literature

The French worship the sensation, from Watteau to the Impressionists. Their literary culture is full with pleasure and delights, and even when they talk about a concrete metaphysical themes like in Paul Valéry's poem "Ebauche D'un Serpent" they cannot avoid the sensation. When the French mention "La Poésie pure", he is not talking about removing non lyrical features from poetry, but removing poetry until they reach the pure sensation just as Mallarmé accomplished in his "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard". This understanding of literature as a vehicle of sensation is alien to the rest of European countries, and it's literary poison for us just as the extreme German sentimentality.

We need poetry without sensation and sentimentalism, we don't want our cultures to be polluted by frenchs nor Germans. We are not french, for GOD'S SAKE!