That quasi-eternal yearning of our being: poetry: The commentary on Vladimir Sorrodjé’s poetry: excerpts from Dernière Clarté/ L’Ardeur/ Ici/ Salves Slaves de l’été/ L’A-temporal

Abstract

Vladimir Sorrodjé announced his presence in contemporary French poetry by publishing L’Apoptose (l’Harmattan 2016). He declared adamantly that it «was neither a manual to win over depression, nor a simulacra counselor in wellbeing.» The poet describes his first poetry selection as «the simple fruit (product) of fatality», or as a post-catastrophic result of the process which brings the programmed death of our cells into being (Apoptosis, lat.).

Apoptosis is a medical term though which relates to our cells, especially of those which ensure the maintenance of all other cells preventing them to degenerate and destroy the body. So, in a way, Apoptosis as a process is an emancipation of Evil in one’s own body, a sacrifice of the cell in order to preserve the health of other ones.

To this notion of cyclic metamorphose of the cell, one could add the Gnostic notion of recovery of the Sun after the soul’s darkest night. As for himself, the poet explains his being as «the product of the improbable union of an idealist scientist and an admirable poet who brought him to light in some part of Europe by the end of the XX century.»