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1 1. Jean Cohen (1919–1994), a theorist of poetry, was the author of two works in this field: La Structure du langage poétique [The Structure of Poetic Language] (Paris: Flammarion/Champs, 1966) and Le Haut Langage [Lofty Language] (Paris: Flammarion, 1979). The second was reprinted shortly after the author’s death (Paris: José Corti, 1995).

2 2. In his Manifeste du surréalisme, André Breton claimed that Paul Valéry, the poet, had told him that he (Valéry) would never condescend to writing such a banal sentence as ‘The marquise went out at five o’clock’ – the kind of sentence that realist novelists (as opposed to symbolist or surrealist poets) are obliged to write.

3 3. That is, a literary style associated with the kind of texts frequently published by Les Éditions de Minuit: often experimental, with a tendency to minimalism.